Talk about breathing new life into art.

Dutch artist Bart Jansen turned his dead pet into a helicopter and unveiled it at the KunstRAI art festival in Amsterdam Saturday. 

Jansen had a taxidermist stuff his cat and then worked with radio control helicopter expert Arjen Beltman to attach propellers to each of its paws, essentially turning the animal into a remote-controlled helicopter. 

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Appropriately, the cat was named Orville after the Wright brother, the pioneering aviator. 

Jansen said his creation, "Orvillecopter," is part of a visual art project to pay tribute to his pet and called it "half cat, half machine."

"After a period of mourning he received his propellers posthumously," he said.

A YouTube video shows the flying feline in a test run, hovering several feet in the air in a park.

However, currently the Orvillecopter does not fly perfectly, a glitch that Jansen aims to fix soon.

"He will receive more powerful engines and larger props for his birthday," Jansen said. "So this hopping will soon change into steady flight."