"The Chippy" (not a reference to fish suppers), or "SL". And it's an aeroplane, not a plane, as has been rightly pointed out out by Stik re Douglas Bader.

Never 'Airplane'; but then I always use the Railway Station when travelling by train, never the 'Train Station'.

SSD

Aircraft - dunno why, I just do. And it's always a HE whether it's an aircraft, boat or car. It just works better that way for me.

It’s an aircraft, and it’s an ‘it’, except for the extremely rare occasions when I grease one, whereupon it becomes ‘you beauty’, and the much more frequent occasions when it oils its plugs up, at which point it becomes ‘a dog’.;)

I tend to call it an aircraft. Basically because it is easier and less long-winded to say than aeroplane or 'airplane' which just doesn't sound like a proper word.
OK- so we've heard that someone calls it a jet, so who calls it an airliner?!

Regards Trislander

India Juliett, to anyone else in our group or at our base field.

And (although that base name includes the word "aerodrome"), very occasionally IJ may be called a plane - not an aeroplane and certainly not an airplane - it's G registered you know.

When I first saw this forum, I thought you meant the nickname of the contraption........boats have names, airplanes should too. Since the last two letters of the tail number are "Delta Sierra"....I affectionately call "it" "Dog S**t".....and it's an airplane.