• 19 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Airplane ASCII Art

Tap a helicopter or airplane to copy every line; on the first, paste it and type over YOUR WORDS.

Airplane ASCII Art

.------------. __ ___ | YOUR WORDS |~~~\ \_____/[_]\_ | '------------' \____________)+ `o o' |Plane with a banner4 lines, 33 wideReady to copy

19 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 2

One line 2

Small, 2 to 4 lines 6

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

Helicopter ASCII pieces and airplane text art, drawn for this page: 19 originals, with seven helicopters, an airliner, a biplane, a small jet and a plane seen from above.

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Helicopter text art with ladder, skids or two rotors

Seven pieces are helicopters. On Helicopter with a sign, type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, on the board under the cabin. Helicopter, side view has the rotor on its mast, a tail boom and skids; Helicopter with a ladder hangs three rungs under the cabin; Twin-rotor helicopter has a rotor at each end. The smallest is three rows.

ASCII airplane and jet text art

Twelve pieces are planes. Jet airliner, side view has ten cabin windows and an engine under its wing; Small jet with a T-tail carries its engine by the tail. On Plane with a banner, type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters.

  • A helicopter made of keyboard symbols needs a monospaced font, or the rotor slides off its mast. Why.
  • For a plane made with keyboard symbols on one row, copy Jet on one line or Airplane head-on, one line.
  • One-character planes are on airplane symbols.

Questions and answers

Which ASCII art airplane is the biggest?

Airplane from above, 11 lines tall: a narrow body with two swept wings and a tailplane, nose up. Four pieces reach 33 columns, the widest on the page.

How does a helicopter fly?

Wikipedia's Helicopter article says its lift and thrust come from rotors spinning horizontally. Five of the seven helicopters here have one main rotor and a tail rotor, drawn as an x.

Which pieces fit on one line?

Two: Airplane head-on, one line, 17 characters, with an engine under each wing, and Jet on one line, 19 characters, with eight windows and a dashed trail.

Is any real aircraft drawn here?

No. The pieces are generic shapes: an airliner, a biplane, a propeller plane, a T-tail jet and helicopters with one or two rotors. No maker, airline or model is named.

All 19 pieces

Your own words 2

  • Helicopter with a sign Nose to the right, hovering, with a board hanging on two ropes under the cabin. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 21 with the padding. 8 lines, 24 wide.
  • Plane with a banner A small propeller plane pulling a banner on a rope. Type over YOUR WORDS, 10 characters, or 12 with the padding. 4 lines, 33 wide.

One line 2

  • Airplane head-on, one line Seen from the front: the body in the middle, a wing each side and an engine under each wing. 1 line, 17 wide.
  • Jet on one line A tail fin, a row of eight windows and a round nose, with a trail of dashes behind. 1 line, 19 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 6

  • Propeller plane, side view Nose to the right: a slanted tail fin, a cockpit, two wheels and a propeller standing at the nose. 4 lines, 30 wide.
  • Small helicopter Four lines: rotor, cabin with a window, tail with its rotor, and skids. 4 lines, 13 wide.
  • Squash-proof helicopter Rotor, cabin with a window and tail rotor, then skids, with no space in it. 3 lines, 11 wide.
  • Squash-proof jet A tail fin, four windows and a nose over a belly with a wing in it. 3 lines, 14 wide.
  • Squash-proof plane, front The tail fin, the body between two engines, and the wheels, with no space in it. 3 lines, 9 wide.
  • Three jets in formation Three small jets one above the other, the middle one ahead, each leaving a dashed trail. 3 lines, 20 wide.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 8

  • Airplane, head-on Seen from the front: the tail fin, a round body, two wings with an engine under each, and the wheels down. 6 lines, 28 wide.
  • Biplane, side view Two wings, one above the body on struts and one below, an open cockpit and a propeller. 7 lines, 32 wide.
  • Helicopter with a ladder Nose to the right, hovering, with a ladder of three rungs hanging from the cabin. 8 lines, 26 wide.
  • Helicopter, front view Head-on: the rotor across the top, a round cabin with a round windshield, and two skids. 8 lines, 25 wide.
  • Helicopter, side view Nose to the left: the rotor on its mast, a cabin with a window, a long tail boom with a tail rotor, and skids. 7 lines, 33 wide.
  • Jet airliner, side view Nose to the left: a cockpit window, ten cabin windows, a tall tail fin and an engine slung under the wing. 6 lines, 33 wide.
  • Small jet with a T-tail Nose to the right: the tailplane on top of the fin, one engine by the tail and three windows. 6 lines, 27 wide.
  • Twin-rotor helicopter A long cabin with six windows under two rotors, one at each end, on four wheels. 6 lines, 33 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Airplane from above Seen from overhead, nose up: a narrow body, two swept wings and a tailplane. 11 lines, 20 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-02 (one was redrawn and one added on 2026-10-03), shown in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, game or brand is drawn. Drafts that did not read as their subject in the picture were redrawn or left out; the 19 kept are the page. Read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 in Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): the article Helicopter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter) says a helicopter is a rotorcraft whose horizontally spinning rotors give both lift and thrust, and describes the layout of one main rotor with a tail rotor. No real aircraft type, maker or airline is drawn or named. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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