Do you name your plane?

I've never named my 170 (first airplane).

The Baron kind of got its name from the stoopid iPhone. Every time I would send my IA a text about a squawk, the dang autocorrect insisted on changing Baron to zBaron. Why I have no clue....but I ended up giving in.

The Waco is named 'Woody'.

I refer to the Beech 18 as the 'Twin Beast'....but my wife and kids seem to insist on changing that one.
 
Putt-putt. Took a friend flying years ago, we "puttered around" for an hour or so.
 
The only one I ever named was my 421B, Charlene. She had a huge letter "C" on her tail and I thought Charlene was appropriate.

When she was repainted the painter added a smaller version of the "C"! Everyone called her Charlene. :D
 
Lowflynjack said:
Aviation is a small community!!
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Not to mention, Tom wrote up the story of his selling the plane to me in his Flying Magazine column. So lots of people outside the owner community know, or at least read about it once upon a time.
 
When I bought my Cardinal, I hung out on the now defunct iPilot.com forums. Someone proposed a contest to name my plane. I got to pick the winning entry: Yellowbird. This was the first inanimate object I've owned that got a name.

If I bought a plane now, however...
My wife had named her Subaru Forester "Subie" before we met, and we now have a tradition/running joke of naming everything by just tacking on a "y" or "ie" to the noun. My Accord is now "Hondy", my trombone is "Tromby", our lawn mower is "Mowie", and so on. We even named our betta "Fishy".

So if I ever replace Yellowbird, the new one will have to be "Planie".
 
"10-10-22", because it took me 10 years, 10 months and 22 days to build my RV.
 
EdFred said:
Lots of oceans in Oklahoma?
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Hey now, I can put the boat in at Tulsa (Port of Catoosa, actually) and travel all the way down the Virdigris/Arkansas/Mississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The ocean's but a stones' throw!
 
SoonerAviator said:
Hey now, I can put the boat in at Tulsa (Port of Catoosa, actually) and travel all the way down the Virdigris/Arkansas/Mississippi rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The ocean's but a stones' throw!
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But Poseidon doesn't really give a crap about freshwater.
 
Actually, we hardly ever wash the Mooney, maybe once a year before annual, and my partners and I have been known to call it "dirty bird".
 
You're close enough to Atlanta to get away with that.
 
I heard a pretty cool plane name the other day while listening to a podcast of Warbird Radio. A J3 in WW2 was named "Missed Me"...
 
Lowflynjack said:
Naming a plane you rent? Kind of like naming your hooker... just saying.
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There was a plane I used to rent - 27J - always thought of her as "Juliette" but then the leaseback owner went and slapped Sancha on the nose! There was a Tomahawk back in the day that most of the flight school kids knew as Blue Angel. One of my Taylorcraft BC-12D's back in the day I used to call either Taylor or Taylor Slow.
 
I haven't found "the right" Archer II yet however when I do, I will name it "Here it goes Jo" in reference to my son's inheritance.
 
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