Bowser's Airship is Bowser's capital flag-airship in the Mario franchise. It first appears in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, over a decade after its DIC Entertainment cartoons counterpart, the Doom Ship, debuted in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3.
In the Super Mario series[]
New Super Mario Bros. U/New Super Luigi U/New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe[]
Bowser's Airship is used as the setting for two courses in both New Super Mario Bros. U and New Super Luigi U. Like World 6-Airship-The Icon of a Airship from New Super Mario Bros. Wii. in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, they are auto-scrolling with Bowser Jr. fought in the end. The first time is in the beginning of Soda Jungle, in The Mighty Cannonship (All Aboard! in New Super Luigi U), which takes place on the deck, then the underwater cabin and ends with a boss fight against Bowser Jr. in a submarine Junior Clown Car. The second time is at the end of Meringue Clouds right after Ludwig's Clockwork Castle, in Boarding the Airship (Bowser Jr. Showdown in New Super Luigi U). Unlike the other airship courses in the series, the level starts on the ground, working its way up to the bottom of the airship, to a boss fight with Bowser Jr. in his armed Junior Clown Car. At the very end of this course, Bowser Jr. accidentally damages the airship and crashes it right outside Peach's Castle and remains there until the game is completed.
The airship appears one more time in the ending, patched up and sputtering, as the Koopalings and Bowser Jr. use it to escape. It eventually crashes into a hill because of Bowser jumping aboard and his weight bringing it down, completely destroying it.
Super Mario Odyssey[]
Bowser's Airship, now colored white and purple and heavily decorated, appears in Super Mario Odyssey. The airship has undergone a small redesign, now sporting fifteen propellers instead of five, sails, what appear to be Power Moon tanks and a variety of smaller embellishments. Rather than the usual theme, the new airship theme from Super Mario Maker for the Super Mario Bros. style plays during scenes in which it flies away.