The Pilot Plan of Brasilia, in the Federal District "Federal District (Brazil)"), is an urban plan that was designed by Lúcio Costa, winner of the competition, in 1957, for the urban project of the New Capital (Nova Capital). Its shape was inspired by the sign of the cross.[1] The format of the area is popularly compared to that of an airplane. Lucio Costa, meanwhile, defended the thesis that the federal capital could be compared to a butterfly, rejecting the previous comparison.[2][3]​.

The project basically consisted of the Road Axis (or "Ejón") in a north-south direction, and the Monumental Axis in an east-west direction. The architectural creation of the central monuments was assigned to Oscar Niemeyer. The Road Axis is formed by the South and North wings and by the central part, where the wings are located on the Road Network of the Pilot Plan. The wings are areas basically composed of residential super blocks, commercial blocks and between leisure and entertainment blocks (where there are also schools and churches "Church (building)"). The Monumental Axis is composed of the Esplanade of the Ministries and the Plaza de los Tres Poderes, to the east; the autarchy sectors, commercial sectors, entertainment sectors and hotel sectors in a central location; the television tower, the Sports Sector (today called the Ayrton Senna Sports Complex, where the Nilson Nelson gymnasium is located), the Mané Garrincha stadium and the Nelson Piquet Autodrome) and the Plaza de Buriti"), to the west. The headquarters of the Federal District government, located in the Plaza de Buriti, should have transferred its administrative functions from the Palace. from Buriti to the administrative region of Taguatinga "Taguatinga (Federal District)") in 2010, which did not happen.[4]​.

The name Pilot Plan, originally attributed to the city's urban planning project, came to designate the entire area built as a result of the initial plan. There is, however, no consensus on what the "Pilot Plan" would be today, as well as on the definition of Brasilia itself.[5]​ Pilot Plan was the name of the Administrative Region I&action=edit&redlink=1 "Administrative Region I (Brasilia) (not yet drafted)").[6]​ Today the Pilot Plan, together with the Brasilia National Park, constitutes the so-called Administrative Region I&action=edit&redlink=1 "Administrative Region I (Brasilia) (not yet written)"), currently called Brasilia.[7]​.

According to decree 10,829/87,[8]​ the limits of the Pilot Plan are defined by the Paranoá Lake to the east, the Vicente Pires borough to the South, the Parque Indústria e Abastecimento Road (EPIA) to the west, and the Bananal borough to the north. In this way, it covers areas of the administrative regions of Cruzeiro&action=edit&redlink=1 "Cruzeiro (Federal District) (not yet drafted), Southwestern/Octogonal") and Candangolândia").