Aviation noise emissions are coupled to air transportation system development, including its on-going transition to reduce CO2 emissions, and introducing advanced air mobility (AAM) and urban airmobility (UAM). Noise is still treated as an externality despite increases in community annoyance complaints and growing evidence of noise effects on health and well-being. The study identifies noise issues in on-going transitions of aviation and shows how sociotechnical aspects influence aviation noise. A system analysis based on interviews from a wide range of stakeholders reveals socio-technical aspects of aviation noise. Climate goals drive initiatives to accelerate aviation's sustainable transformation. Electrification and sustainable fuels are seen as solutions that simultaneously allow the aviation sector to grow and achieve transportation goals. Accessibility and mobility goals support development of AAM/UAM systems especially targeted to regional and urban transportation challenges. Noise correlates to the amount of traffic and annoyance is anticipated to increase with numbers of exposed citizens and introducing new sound sources in an urban context. Noise should be factored in already inthe design of future solutions to mitigate effects on health and well-being, but also to maximize societal benefits from aviation allowing conditions for realizing innovation which otherwise risk be restricted.