Aircraft Recognition Guide
Aircraft Recognition Guide
Welcome
Welcome to this aircraft recognition guide! This website is to help you recognise different aircraft types. It is meant for all aviation enthusiasts, ranging from those that occasionally go aircraft viewing at an airport or airshow to 'hardcore' aircraft spotters that want to know the exact aircraft type. On this website you will find all the information on what to look for, with a lot of images and tips to help you! As there are so many different aircraft this website will be gradually expanded.
Getting started
Recognising an aircraft type starts by looking at specific characteristics of the aircraft: what type of aircraft is it (e.g. airplane or helicopter), is it a jet or propeller aircraft, how many engines does it have, what is the wing and tail configuration? Under menu item "What to look for?" We have explained what the main characteristics are.
Once you know what to look for you can start your search. This can be done in two ways:
- By main characteristics. Answer some questions about the (main) properties of the aircraft to be identified, using checkboxes. This will narrow your search eventually bringing you to the webpage of the aircraft you are looking for.
- By aircraft manufacturer and main aircraft type. If you already know the main type of the aircraft and are just looking for the exact subtype you can also start the search from the combination of manufacturer and main aircraft type.
Aircraft News
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- 02 June 2020
On 28 May 2020 MagniX celebrated the first flight of its next project to electrify aircraft, the eCaravan. Now it concerned an even larger aircraft than the Beaver last year, a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan! -
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- 19 May 2020
Textron Aviation's newest aircraft, the Cessna 408 SkyCourier, made its first flight from Wichita-Beech Field in Kansas on Sunday 17 May 2020. -
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- 20 February 2020
Airbus has received the certification papers for its smallest wide body aircraft, the A330-800, on 13 February 2020both in Europe and the USA.
Website updates
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Five additional aircraft types added
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- 17 May 2020
We continue to expand the website with the addition of full descriptions of no less than five new aircraft types, the Adam A700, British Aerospace ATP, Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet, Lockheed C-5 Galaxy and Raytheon Hawker 4000. -
New types added
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- 18 April 2020
We continue the work behind the scenes but have also added full descriptions of the following aircraft types: Cessna Conquest II, Mitsubishi F-2 and the Boeing (McDonnell-Douglas) C-17 Globemaster III. -
Piaggio Avanti added
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- 23 February 2020
Most updates the last months have been largely unvisible, but sometimes we add a full aircraft type for the list. This time it concerns the Piaggio Avanti. -
Embraer Phenom 300 and Airbus A400 added
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- 21 November 2019
While we have been mostly working on adding propeller aircraft to the 'search by airplane characteristics' page, we also managed to make detailed descriptions on how to recognise the Embraer Phenom 300 and Airbus A400, the first prop aircraft. -
IAI bizjets added
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- 13 September 2019
Three more bizjet aircraft types are ready to be explored, to learn how to recognise them. These are the Jet Commander & Westwind series, IAI1125 Astra, Gulfstteam G100/G150 and IAI1126 Galaxy, also known as Gulfstream G200.