Small airplane Emoji

Travel

A side profile of a light, propeller-driven aircraft, shown flying towards the right. It features a simple body design with a visible propeller and landing gear, representing a general aviation vehicle rather than a massive commercial jet.

Usage Context

Used to denote light travel, private flights, or a quick trip. It is frequently sent to show someone is departing, currently in the air on a smaller craft, or to discuss aviation hobbies. It differs from the standard ✈️ by emphasizing personal or small-scale transport.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2014 as part of Unicode 7.0. It was introduced to help distinguish smaller, piston-engine aircraft from the larger, long-haul passenger airliners found in earlier emoji sets.

Details

Glyph

🛩

Unicode

U+1F6E9

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6e9:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEE9;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Travel

Subcategory transport-air

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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