| YOSSARIAN | Disgruntled pilot in the novel Catch-22 (9) |
| ABBOTT | Christopher _, star of the 2019 TV adaptation of the novel Catch-22 (6) |
| BRICKHILL | Royal Australian Air Force pilot in the Second World War; author of volumes The Dam Busters and The Great Escape (4,9) |
| PAUL | Royal Australian Air Force pilot in the Second World War; author of volumes The Dam Busters and The Great Escape (4,9) |
| TOMHANKS | U.S. actor who played the lead role of the heroic airline pilot in the 2016 film Sully (3,5) |
| HELLER | Joseph ---, American writer whose works included the 1961 novel Catch-22 (6) |
| JOSEPHHELLER | American writer whose works include the 1961 novel Catch-22 (6,6) |
| CATHCART | Colonel ******** , character in Joseph Heller's novel 'Catch-22' (8) |
| ORR | Yossarian's tent-mate in Joseph Heller's 1961 novel, Catch-22 (3) |
| OTTO | Almost a homonym: Name of the inflatable "auto" pilot in the 1980 movie "Airplane" (and an anagram of 19A) |
| REDBARON | What was the nickname of Manfred von Richthofen. a German pilot in the First World War? (3.5) |
| DILEMMA | Turn over cover on novel -- Catch-22 (7) |
| ELITE | "On March 3, 1969, the United States Navy established an ___ school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to ensure that the handful of men |
| POLTROONS | Orion pilots in trouble - one bails out, and then the other - the cowards! (9) |
| POEDAMERON | Resistance pilot in "The Force Awakens" |
| FLYBYNIGHT | Unreliable pilot in the dark |
| AIRMAN | Pilot in the marina, perhaps (6) |
| EJECT | Pilot in the hot seat needs to unseat! (5) |
| FLYBOY | Air force pilot (in the US) (3,3) |
| ACE | Top pilot in the service is a winner (3) |
