Aviation, which stands at the centre of technology, transportation and defence industry, is mainly constructed on a good knowledge of science and engineering. A qualified transfer of science and technology can be possible within science literacy and the provider of this role is the qualified science educators. Therefore, within this study, it was aimed to reveal the opinions of pre-service science teachers about aviation and science through metaphors. Metaphors are not only defined as the transfer of content from one thing to another, but also mental mechanisms that facilitate the concretization of the experiences. The study was conducted with a total of 144 pre-service science teachers, 114 women and 30 men, studying in a faculty of education of a university located in the mid-Black Sea region of Turkey, in the fall semester of 2019-2020 academic year. 15 of the participants were freshman, 36 of them were sophomore, 53 of them were third graders and 40 of them were seniors. The data were collected through metaphor technique from the responses of pre-service teachers to “Aviation is like… because…” and “Aviation and Science is like… because…” quotes and content analysis method was used to analyse the data. The data obtaining process is consisted of four stages. Those are; coding and sorting stage, sample metaphor image compilation stage, category development stage and validity and reliability stage (Saban, 2009). In the first stage, a temporary list of the metaphors produced by the participants was made and it is tried to determine whether the metaphor was clearly expressed. At the end, a total of 144 valid metaphor images were reached and a sample metaphor image was identified from the participant descriptions representing for each metaphor. The created metaphors were examined in terms of their common features related to science and aviation disciplines and how each metaphor image conceptualized to those disciplines. At last, in order to ensure the reliability of the study, expert opinions were sought to ensure that the metaphors given under the conceptual category represents properly of their categories. In the findings of the study, the concept of Aviation is categorized under eight titles of Aviation as an Element of Science and Technology, Aviation as an Element of Discovery and Entertainment, Aviation as an Element of Freedom, Aviation as an Element of Transportation, Aviation as an Element of Positive Emotions, Aviation as an Element of Biomimicry, Aviation as an Element of Danger and lastly, Aviation as an Element of Success, respectively. The relationship between Aviation and Science were also categorized under six titles of Aviation and Science as an Element of Complementarity, Aviation and Science as an Element of Affinity, Aviation and Science as an Element of Relation, Aviation and Science as an Element of Necessity, Aviation and Science as an Element of Biomimicry and lastly, Aviation and Science as an Element of Irrelevance. In the light of the findings of the research, it was seen that 33,5% of the pre-service teachers associate aviation with Freedom, and 50% of them correlate with aviation and science in Complementarity. According to the findings; the revealing concepts of participants such as “freedom, discovery, science and technology and success show the positive adaptation of aviation to the human nature. Similarly, it can be said that the relevant themes symbolize the pioneer role of aviation in our development as a civilization. Because, concepts such as science, space, technology, machinery and transportation indicate that aviation has a rooted place in the civilization of humanity from the views of the participants. In addition, aviation is seen as a desirable element of success. In other words, some of the pre-service teachers see aviation as an important career field. It is believed that using this positive perception against aviation as a driving force in science teaching will contribute to children's motivation and understanding of science concepts more easily and comprehensively. Therefore, the integration of aeronautics as a context into science courses can be one of the effective ways of teaching science. This will also help to raise a better understanding of aviation in society. Also, within the findings, the majority of the participants think that there is a complementary link between science and aviation. This complementarity is sometimes explained as a requirement of existing together in the same time, but sometimes as a relation of cause and effect. According to some metaphor definitions, aviation and science are perceived outside the scientific and even unrelated to each other. As a conclusion, it is seen that the pre-service teachers' learning and differentiation of the concepts of aviation and related science may lead to a more conscious perception of aviation in particular but a better perception of the nature of science in