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Example using Fontawesome plane (click on the image to see animation):

Update: The Beamer part, to fulfill the request completely.

To become independent from Adobe products, the whole presentation can be made in SVG format (Click to start presentation, F11 for full-screen, navigate with PgUp and PgDown; a Blink-based browser [Chromium, Chrome, Opera] may be needed for the background gradient to be rendered correctly):

Standalone animation LaTeX input:

Update: example extended (softer take-off and landing) and improved (node placing along path, as shown by user @Hafid).

documentclass{standalone}                    % animated PDF

%documentclass[dvisvgm,preview]{standalone}  % animated SVG: latex + dvisvgm --font-format=woff --bbox=preview --zoom=-1  

%documentclass[export]{standalone}           % multipage PDF



usepackage{fontawesome}

usepackage{tikz,animate}

ExplSyntaxOn

letfpEvalfp_eval:n % expandable flt-point calculation with L3

ExplSyntaxOff



begin{document}

    begin{animateinline}[

        autoplay,controls,

        begin={begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.85]

                 coordinate (a)  at (110:15); coordinate (b)  at (70:15);

                 node [anchor=north east] at (a) {A}; node [anchor=north west] at (b) {B};

                 useasboundingbox (a) node [anchor=north east] {A} arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [anchor=north west] {B};},

        end={end{tikzpicture}}

    ]{24}

    multiframe{161}{iPos=0+1}{%

      path[draw] (a) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [pos=fpEval{0.5*(1-cosd(180*iPos/160))},sloped,rotate=-45]{faPlane};

    }

    newframe

    multiframe{19}{iAng=45+10}{%

      path[draw] (a) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [pos=1,sloped,rotate=-iAng]{faPlane};

    }

    newframe*

    multiframe{161}{iPos=0+1}{%

      path[draw] (a) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [pos=fpEval{0.5*(1+cosd(180*iPos/160))},sloped,rotate=135]{faPlane};

    }

    newframe

    multiframe{19}{iAng=135+-10}{%

      path[draw] (a) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [pos=0,sloped,rotate=iAng]{faPlane};

    }

    end{animateinline}

end{document}

Presentation (beamer-class ) LaTeX input. Compile with

latex presentation.tex

latex presentation.tex

dvisvgm --font-format=woff --bbox=papersize --zoom=-1 -p1,- presentation

documentclass[dvisvgm,hypertex,aspectratio=169]{beamer}

usetheme{Singapore}



usepackage{fontawesome}

usepackage{tikz,animate}

ExplSyntaxOn

letfpEvalfp_eval:n % expandable flt-point calculation with L3

ExplSyntaxOff



%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% PageDown, PageUp key event handling; navigation symbols

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

usepackage[totpages]{zref}

usepackage{atbegshi}

usepackage{fontawesome}

setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

AtBeginShipout{%

  AtBeginShipoutAddToBox{%

    special{dvisvgm:raw

      <defs>

      <script type="text/javascript">

      <![CDATA[

        document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e){

          if(e.key=='PageDown'){

            ifnumthepage<ztotpages

              document.location.replace('jobname-thenumexprthepage+1relax.svg');%

            fi

          }else if(e.key=='PageUp'){

            ifnumthepage>1

              document.location.replace('jobname-thenumexprthepage-1relax.svg');%

            fi%

          }

        });

      ]]>

      </script>

      </defs>

    }%

  }%

  AtBeginShipoutUpperLeftForeground{%

    raisebox{-dimexprheight+0.5exrelax}[0pt][0pt]{makebox[paperwidth][r]{%

      normalsizecolor{structure!40!}%

      ifnumthepage>1%

        href{jobname-thenumexprthepage-1relax.svg}{faArrowLeft}%

      else%  

        textcolor{lightgray}{faArrowLeft}%  

      fihspace{0.5ex}%

      ifnumthepage<ztotpages%

        href{jobname-thenumexprthepage+1relax.svg}{faArrowRight}%

      else%

        textcolor{lightgray}{faArrowRight}%  

      fi%

      hspace{0.5ex}%

    }}%

  }%  

}%

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



title{Fasten Seat Belts}

subtitle{Use a Web browser and press framebox{F11}}

author{AlexG}

date{today}



begin{document}



frame{titlepage}



begin{frame}{Animation}

  begin{center}

    begin{animateinline}[

        autoplay,controls,

        begin={begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.95]

                 coordinate (a)  at (110:15); coordinate (b)  at (70:15);

                 node [anchor=north east] at (a) {A}; node [anchor=north west] at (b) {B};

                 useasboundingbox (a) node [anchor=north east] {A} arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [anchor=north west] {B};},

        end={end{tikzpicture}}

    ]{24}

    multiframe{161}{iPos=0+1}{%

      path[draw] (a) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [pos=fpEval{0.5*(1-cosd(180*iPos/160))},sloped,rotate=-45]{faPlane};

    }

    newframe

    multiframe{19}{iAng=45+10}{%

      path[draw] (a) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [pos=1,sloped,rotate=-iAng]{faPlane};

    }

    newframe*

    multiframe{161}{iPos=0+1}{%

      path[draw] (a) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [pos=fpEval{0.5*(1+cosd(180*iPos/160))},sloped,rotate=135]{faPlane};

    }

    newframe

    multiframe{19}{iAng=135+-10}{%

      path[draw] (a) arc [start angle=110,end angle=70,radius=15] (b) node [pos=0,sloped,rotate=iAng]{faPlane};

    }

    end{animateinline}  

  end{center}

end{frame}



end{document}

With decorations.markings you can transport the plane along any path and it will always be rotated to be a tangent of the path (without you having to do that manually).

documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

usepackage{fontawesome}

mode<presentation>

{usetheme{Singapore}

 setbeamercovered{transparent}

}

usepackage[english]{babel}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings,calc}

title{Beamer Example}

author{Author}

subject{Presentation Programs} 

institute[ University]{

    Department of XZ\

     University}        

newcountmyangle    

begin{document}        

section{Outline}               

begin{frame}[t]

frametitle{Example}

transduration{4}

animate<2-21>

animatevalue<2-21>{myangle}{0}{19}



begin{tikzpicture}

tikzset{pics/.cd,

plane/.style={code={fill (-0.6,0.2) -- (-0.5,0) -- (-0.6,-0.2)

-- (-0.4,-0.2) -- (-0.3,-0.1)-- (-0.1,-0.15) -- (-0.2,-0.5) -- (00.05,-0.5)

-- (0.15,-0.2) to[out=0,in=-90] (0.5,0) to[out=90,in=180]  (0.15,0.2)

-- (00.05,0.5) -- (-0.2,0.5) -- (-0.1,0.15) -- (-0.3,0.1) -- (-0.4,0.2); }}}

path[use as bounding box] (-5.5,-4.5) rectangle (2.5,3.5);

draw[postaction={decorate,decoration={markings,

mark=at position myangle/20 with {path let p1=($(current bounding

box.east)-(current bounding box.west)$),

n1={-atan2(y1,x1)} in  pic[rotate=n1]{plane};}}}] (-5,0) to (2,0) arc(90:-180:2)

--++(0,5);

end{tikzpicture}

end{frame}

end{document}

This uses the beamer built-in animation facilities (as in Hafid's answer), but can be combined with animateinline (see Raaja's answer and AlexG's answer).

The animated gif was created via

 convert -density 300 -delay 34 -loop 0 -alpha remove multipage.pdf animated.gif

as explained in this great answer.

Or a 3D like version where the plane flies out of the beamer plane. (Before giving the presentation, please contact the organizers for a safety briefing. ;-)

documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

mode<presentation>

{usetheme{Singapore}

 setbeamercovered{transparent}

}

usepackage[english]{babel}

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings,calc}

title{Beamer Example}

author{Author}

subject{Presentation Programs} 

institute[ University]{

    Department of XZ\

     University}        

newcountmydist     

begin{document}        

section{Outline}               

begin{frame}[t]

frametitle{Example}

transduration{4}

animate<2-22>

animatevalue<2-22>{mydist}{0}{20}



begin{tikzpicture}

tikzset{pics/.cd,

plane/.style={code={fill (-0.6,0.2) -- (-0.5,0) -- (-0.6,-0.2)

-- (-0.4,-0.2) -- (-0.3,-0.1)-- (-0.1,-0.15) -- (-0.2,-0.5) -- (00.05,-0.5)

-- (0.15,-0.2) to[out=0,in=-90] (0.5,0) to[out=90,in=180]  (0.15,0.2)

-- (00.05,0.5) -- (-0.2,0.5) -- (-0.1,0.15) -- (-0.3,0.1) -- (-0.4,0.2); }}}

path[use as bounding box] (-5.25,-4.5) rectangle (2.25,3.5);

draw[postaction={decorate,decoration={markings,

mark=at position mydist/20 with {path let p1=($(current bounding

box.east)-(current bounding box.west)$),

n1={-atan2(y1,x1)} in  (0,0)

pic[rotate=n1,scale={0.3+0.7*sin(9*mydist)},gray!20]{plane}

(${0.01+0.04*sin(9*mydist)}*($(current bounding

box.north east)-(current bounding box.south west)$)$)

pic[rotate=n1,scale={0.3+0.7*sin(9*mydist)}]{plane};}}}] (-5,0) to (2,0) arc(90:-180:2)

--++(0,5);

end{tikzpicture}

end{frame}

end{document}

Another solution using animate command provided by the beamer package

    documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

        usepackage{fontawesome}

        usepackage{tikz}

        mode<presentation>

        {usetheme{Singapore}

        setbeamercovered{transparent}

        }

    usepackage[english]{babel}

    title{Beamer Example}

    author{Author}

    subject{Presentation Programs} 

    institute[ University]{

        Department of XZ\

         University}        

    begin{document}        

        section{Outline}               

        frame[label=exampleframe]{

            frametitle{Example} 

            See the plane flying

            newcountp

            animate<2-10>

            animatevalue<2-10>{p}{0}{100}

            begin{tikzpicture}

            path(0,0)rectangle(0.75paperwidth,-0.75paperheight);

            path[draw](0,0)..controls +(30:2) and +(40:2)..+(4,-1) node [pos=p/100,sloped,rotate=-45,allow upside down]{faPlane};



            end{tikzpicture}

        }           

    end{document}

A starting point for your pursuit:

documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}

usepackage{fontawesome}

mode<presentation>

{usetheme{Singapore}

    setbeamercovered{transparent}

}

usepackage[english]{babel}

title{Beamer Example}

author{Author}

subject{Presentation Programs} 

institute[ University]{

    Department of XZ\

    University}        



%% you need these

usepackage{tikz}

usetikzlibrary{positioning, arrows}

usepackage{animate}



begin{document}        

    section{Outline}               

    frame[label=exampleframe]{

        frametitle{Example}                

        faPlane            

    }           



begin{frame}[c]



begin{center}

    pgfmathtruncatemacroN{10}



begin{animateinline}[autoplay]{5} 

    multiframe{6}{iPosition=0+1}{

        begin{tikzpicture}

        node[circle,draw=black] (t1) at (0,0) {};

        node (tx) at (iPosition,0) {rotatebox{-45}{faPlane}};

        draw[-]  (t1.center) -- (tx.center);

        node[circle,draw=black] (t2) at (5,0) {};

        end{tikzpicture}

    }

end{animateinline}

end{center}



end{frame}

end{document}

PS With @marmot's suggestion:

Slightly modified from https://github.com/samcarter/Extravanganza2018/blob/master/paulo/MaryDuck/MaryDuck.tex by @PauloCereda

documentclass{beamer}



usepackage{tikzducks}

setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}

usetikzlibrary{calc,decorations.markings}



setbeamertemplate{background}{%

begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay,

 decoration={markings, mark=at position thepage/insertdocumentendpage with {

    begin{scope}[xscale=-1]

    duck

    fill[orange] (0.7331,0.5229) .. controls (1.8688,-0.6326) and (2.2337,0.0383) .. (1.2819,0.7331) -- cycle;

    fill[brown] (1.3848,1.6771) .. controls (1.2665,2.2823) and (0.5559,2.2697) .. (0.4000,1.6455) .. controls (0.5711,1.6714) and (0.8503,1.6562) .. (0.9926,1.6247) .. controls (0.9703,1.4641) and (1.0307,1.0718) .. (1.1444,1.0104) .. controls (1.3485,0.9002) and (1.4461,1.4498) .. (1.3848,1.6771) -- cycle;

    fill[gray] (0.9153,1.4857) -- (0.9472,1.6278) -- (1.3926,1.5288) -- (1.3840,1.4228) -- cycle;

    fill[gray] (0.6484,1.6773) -- (0.6601,1.7155) -- (0.7558,1.6863) -- (0.7441,1.6480) -- cycle;

    draw[gray,fill=black] (0.83,1.57) circle (0.135);

    draw[gray,fill=black] (0.54,1.65) circle (0.12);

    end{scope}

}}

]

path[postaction=decorate]

  ($(current page.north west)+(-1,0)$) to[out=-30,in=90] 

  (current page.center) to[out=-90,in=180,looseness=6,distance=4cm]

  (current page.center) to[out=0,in=160]

  (current page.south east);

end{tikzpicture}%

}



begin{document}



begin{frame}

pause[50]

end{frame}



end{document}