Small Planes, subtitled Lost and Found Songs: 1996–2001, is the fifth studio album by American alternative rock band The Innocence Mission, released on September 25, 2001 by What Are Records?.

[3] The band's lead guitarist Don Peris said they had mutually parted ways with A&M a few months prior to the merger, but said they had recorded a fourth studio album for the label which was ready to be released in 1996.

[10] AllMusic said that although Small Planes consisted of outtakes, the album was "as good as many bands' major works", and that it was a "unique and special, gentle, pure, and precious" record.

[6] Similarly, a writer for Audiogalaxy said that even if the album was "cobbled together out of tracks left behind between sessions for 1995's Glow and the present, Small Planes largely displays the consistent wholeness of a new studio release."

Their writer also alluded to the then-recent September 11 attacks, and said the album would leave "a listener of any faith with a message of peace and hope that speaks volumes, especially in light of everything happening in our world today.

He praised the inclusion of Mike Bitts and Steve Brown, band members who were largely absent from the 1999 album Birds of My Neighborhood, saying they bring "an energy and a vitality that varies the pace of [Small Planes] nicely."