Do you have a pet name for your plane?

[skyfarer]

I’ve signed a purchase agreement, and this is certainly the least of my concerns…. but my wife says we should name her when she becomes officially my first Mooney.

So do any of you have a cool or clever pet name for your ship?

A friend of mine has a Cherokee Six and named it the “Orange Bird”, it has a fun decal of the Disney Orange bird on the side. The reason? It’s slow but knows how to get to Florida.

[AerostarDriver]

11 minutes ago, skyfarer said:

I’ve signed a purchase agreement, and this is certainly the least of my concerns…. but my wife says we should name her when she becomes officially my first Mooney.

So do any of you have a cool or clever pet name for your ship?

A friend of mine has a Cherokee Six and named it the “Orange Bird”, it has a fun decal of the Disney Orange bird on the side. The reason? It’s slow but knows how to get to Florida.

My wife named our mooney, Mable. We started off ownership with some pretty bad luck and quite a few tense moments, which resulted in me spending almost all of my time out side of work, working on the "other women". I spend way too much time with Mable and she always gets us where we need to go, it just may be on her time. 

[aviatoreb]

My airplane is the pi-plane.  A bi-plane has two wings.  A tri-wing has 3 wings.  A pi-plane has an irrational number of wings and her tail number is N314EB you will need to figure what the EB.  Professor of mathematics...

[David Lloyd]

N314EB you will need to figure what the EB

Anything to do with Green Acres?  One Eb to another.

[N201MKTurbo]

My wife says his name is Mike, because every time they call me on the radio I say Mike.

And his last name is Kilo, but we aren’t that formal.

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[N9405V]

My daughter named our plane Elaine D’Plane Mooney.


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[EricJ]

An old friend that used to own a Mooney long ago was helping me navigate the search and purchase process, mostly providing a second set of eyes and moral support.   The purchase process turned out to be far longer and difficult and frustrating than expected, and he spontaneously called it a "drama queen" in the middle of all of it.   That stuck, and it was reinforced during the first six months of ownership.   It's been an awesome airplane since then, though, but we still call it that, or just DQ.  

When other friends, mostly non-aviators, saw the tail number they started coming up wtih all kinds of names, mostly NSFW, base on the TS.   My fave was Tittie Sprinkles, but Drama Queen has stuck instead. 

[alextstone]

My airplane is named Divided Sky

[Niko182]

Edward. 

[PilotX]

Miss Daisy.

[RLCarter]

Like a child in trouble, mine gets called by its FULL name when I’m not happy with her. Can’t really tell you with out getting banned, but her initials are “FPS”…. But mostly I call her by her nick name “Mooney”

[Papa K]

2 Weeks ago I became grandpa for the first time.  Last week I bought my first plane.   On the advice of my accountant, I created an LLC to register the plane.  SO.... I created Papa K's Flying Service, LLC.  My kids think I should call the plane:  K Force One!

What ever you decide to call it, you get to call it your own!

[N231BN]

Brown-Noser

[ohdub]

My wife named ours Gwendolyn. When she first saw her, she looked at the registration (C-GWED) and said her name is Gwendolyn and it stuck.

[Wildhorsetrail]

Best thread yet!

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[201er]

Nope. Had her for 11 years and still just call her “My Mooney”

[Ragsf15e]

2 hours ago, RLCarter said:

Like a child in trouble, mine gets called by its FULL name when I’m not happy with her. Can’t really tell you with out getting banned, but her initials are “FPS”…. But mostly I call her by her nick name “Mooney”

Been there (FPS), but we generally try to call her Mimi.  Mimi the Mooney.

[carusoam]

There are a few threads…

This topic comes up often…

Use caution when naming the plane… it can cause some jealousy issues….   

Best regards,

-a-

[Ned Gravel]

My wife decided to call ours Baby.  Her call.  I’m good.  

[Yetti]

Al

 

[Greg Ellis]

13 hours ago, N231BN said:

Brown-Noser

Not to take anything away from your nice looking plane but....Cool M22 Mustang in the background.

[N231BN]

Not to take anything away from your nice looking plane but....Cool M22 Mustang in the background.

Thanks, that's the flyable parts plane. His other one is in much better shape.

[Oscar Avalle]

My son Fausto decided to call N9341V "our Mooney".

 

Oscar 

[EricJ]

3 hours ago, N231BN said:

4 hours ago, Greg Ellis said:

Not to take anything away from your nice looking plane but....Cool M22 Mustang in the background.

Thanks, that's the flyable parts plane. His other one is in much better shape.

"Flyable parts plane" seems like an oxymoron. 

[skyfarer]

21 hours ago, carusoam said:

There are a few threads…

This topic comes up often…

Use caution when naming the plane… it can cause some jealousy issues….   

Best regards,

-a-

I did a half ass search to see if this had been asked before, clearly I failed!  Thank you for the links to the other threads, very helpful.