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The North American F-86 Sabre was the primary US fighter during the Korean war. The early versions have a typical forward pointing "upper lip" on the top of the air intake in the nose. The aircraft was also built by Canadair (as CL-13), CAC (as CA-26/CA-27), Fiat and Mitsubushi. The US Navy version was the Fury.
Later versions of the F-86 Sabre received a radar nose radome, giving them a distinct different appearance, although the rest remains largely unchanged.
The Mustang is powered by a liquid cooled piston engine, so the nose is quite streamlined. Typical for the P-51 is the rounded cooler inlet below the fuselage, near the wing trailing edge. The tail has a trapezium shape with straight edges. The canopy had frames on the first versions, later a bubble canopy became standard, as shown here.
The Sabreliner family is the only aircraft with low, swept wings, two jet engines mounted to the rear fuselage and horizontal stabilisers attached to the fuselage. Most aircraft in this configuration have a cruciform tail or T-tail. Also striking is the shape of the cabin windows of the early versions: they are triangular!
The T-28 has quite a modern appearance with its metal surfaces, retractable nose gear and bubble tandem canopy, but has a big radial engine in the nose. This gives the Trojan a bit of a stubby appearance.
The appearance of the Buckeye jet trainer is quite typical with its mid-wing configuration, engine(s) in the bottom of the fuselage with exhaust(s) under the rear fuselage, a tall cruciform tail and long main landing gears. It comes in single and twin engine versions.
The North American Texan, outside the USA mainly known as Harvard, is a radial piston powered basic trainer. Characteristics are the multi framed tandem canopy, retractable tail wheel landing gear with no main gear doors and a triangular vertical stabiliser with a rudder to the bottom of the rear fuselage.
The combination of a tail boom configuration with two T-tails and a two-seat tandem cockpit is quite unusual, but these are the key features to recognise the Bronco small attack and observation aircraft.
The shape of the B-2 is a sight not to forget easily: a flying triangle. The stealth bomber has no horizontal and vertical stabiliser. It is a flying wing, like earlier design from Northrop, but more with a triangle shape than a long wing shape. Also look for the many parallel leading and trailing edges.
The stealth bomber is a flying wing like the B-2, but with a single W shaped trailing edge. It has no horizontal stabilisers, nor vertical ones. The number of engines is assumed, given its size. The main gear has two wheels, as has the nose gear. (photo: USAF/WikiMedia)