How to boot Android with flight mode (airplane mode) activated

Is it possible to boot up Android so flight mode is activated? When I set airplane mode before rebooting or creating a nandroid backup the setting will stick. Are there any files like init.d that are easy to modify where these kinds of boot options are stored? Another alternative would be a modified Custom Recovery. But I haven't heard of one. *Use case:* *Restore an old Nandroid Backup, but before the system fetches all the updates (messenger...) the user wants to restore certain app data so nothing gets lost.* That is only possible when in flight mode.