Editing Aviator call sign (section)

===Film===
* The 1986 film ''[[Top Gun]]'', set at the [[United States Navy Fighter Weapons School]], featured several aviators with call signs, including Pete Mitchell ([[Tom Cruise]]): "Maverick";<ref name="usaf">{{cite web |last1=Powell |first1=William |title=What's your sign? |url=https://www.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/143757/whats-your-sign/ |website=United States Air Force |access-date=August 2, 2017|date=June 3, 2005}}</ref> Tom Kasansky ([[Val Kilmer]]): "Iceman";{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} and  Nick Bradshaw ([[Anthony Edwards (actor)|Anthony Edwards]]): "Goose".<ref name="usaf"/> In addition, a number of military or former military personnel acted as crew to the film: Rick Moe (F-14 air crew): "Curly";{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Ray Seckinger (Top Gun instructor and MiG pilot): "Secks";{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Thomas Sobieck (Top Gun instructor and MiG pilot): "Sobs";{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} Robert Willard (Navy aerial coordinator, Top Gun instructor and MiG pilot): "Rat";{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} C.J. Heatley (aerial camera operator): "Heater";{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} and Ricky Hammonds (Top Gun instructor and MiG pilot): "Organ".{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}}
* In the 1991 film ''[[Flight of the Intruder]]'', new [[A-6 Intruder]] pilot LTJG Jack Barlow is given the call sign "Razor" because he didn't look old enough to shave.  It is later changed to "[[Straight Razor]]" at the end of the film because he'd become "a real weapon" in the eyes of his commanding officer.  The book's principal character Jake Grafton has the call sign "Cool Hand".
* The 2019 film ''[[Captain Marvel (film)|Captain Marvel]]'', set in 1995, has former ex-[[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] test pilot and member of an elite [[Kree]] military unit, [[Carol Danvers]] having "Avenger" as her call sign. This name is later used by [[Nick Fury]] to rename the initiative that he had earlier drafted, to locate heroes like Danvers. He renames the initiative ''[[The Avengers (2012 film)|The Avengers]]'' after her Air Force call sign.