Operate a plane

The answer

AVIATE

6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AVIATE answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1942. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AVIATE

Every other clue in this collection answered by AVIATE, most used first.

• Fly - used 115 times, most recently in 2026
• Fly a plane - used 55 times, most recently in 2026
• Take to the sky - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Do the Wright thing? - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
• Emulate Earhart - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
• Take to the skies - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Pilot - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Take wing - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• Fly high - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Pilot a plane - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
• Take to the air - used 13 times, most recently in 2011
• Be a pilot - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• Take flight - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Go up - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Barnstorm, say - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Navigate the air - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Attack by plane - STRAFE, used 9 times
• On the plane - ABOARD, used 9 times
• Plane, e.g. - EVENER, used 7 times
• Plane place - HANGAR, used 7 times

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