The investigation focuses on nonlinear flutter suppression of loaded lifting surfaces with freeplay. By using Coulomb friction which can be implemented by injecting viscoelastic material into freeplay, a study intended to suppress limit cycle and chaos is conducted. These have successfully been solved by the time domain method and the describing function method. The present study, demonstrated in the suspension bridge and the whole-movable horizontal tail model, shows that the passive method is workable not only in suppressing the limit cycle and chaos but also in reducing vibration amplitude. In addition, increase in Coulomb friction of the suspension bridge case may bring about inverse evolution of chaos.