/r/Whatisthisplane

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The one and only subreddit dedicated to quick and accurate aircraft identification (helicopters, and spacecraft welcome)! Please read the rules.

Please only post planes! It does not matter if it is in a game, the plane does not exist, or whatever. Oh and btw, we also allow rockets and spaceships for some diversity.

Rules

  1. Must be about planes. All posts must be about aircraft, this is obviously explained by the name of this sub.

  2. Don't be rude. This is a clean and friendly sub where there will be no fighting, name calling, or accusations allowed.

  3. Do not answer posts with “It’s a plane.” The goal of this sub is to help others successfully identify aircraft. Responding with “plane” is not helpful, and will result in your comment being removed.

  4. Refrain from involving politics. Many aircraft are used in war. Nevertheless, please keep any political discussions to a minimum; historical facts are, of course, allowed.

  5. Mark your post solved. When you are satisfied with an answer please reply to that comment with "Solved!" (without the quotes). This will mark the post solved.

  6. Post has to be an identifying post. Please only use this subreddit as an identifying subreddit. If you want more info about anything, we will refer you to subreddits like r/airplanes , r/aviation , r/flying and others.

/r/Whatisthisplane

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Anyone know what plane/jet this is

Was flying low and fast over Atlanta, I looked away for a quick second to grab some binoculars and by the time I came back it was already over my apartment.

14 Comments
2025/01/31
23:20 UTC

1

Saw this at my school, couldn’t tell what fighter it was

21 Comments
2025/01/31
22:34 UTC

1

What is this plane I saw on a jacket in a store?

5 Comments
2025/01/31
22:20 UTC

1

Indian Occupied Kashmir

Last one was pixelated idk why

2 Comments
2025/01/31
19:52 UTC

34

What are these jets I saw this morning?

Saw these pair of jets flying overhead this morning on a flight path used frequently by JBLM in WA State

27 Comments
2025/01/31
17:58 UTC

12

What is this helicopter?

Sorry for bad picture, my phone zoom sucks. I believe it is an Apache, I have no idea why one would be up where I am (Edmonds, WA USA). Nothing showed up on flightradar when I checked.

19 Comments
2025/01/30
23:29 UTC

238

spotted at Monithan AFB in ⁨Tucson⁩, ⁨AZ ⁨USA

15 Comments
2025/01/30
11:13 UTC

8

What was this? I think it might be a Eurofighter I’m not sure tho.

This was flying over my town

(This isn’t my photo, I got it on Facebook)

27 Comments
2025/01/30
02:53 UTC

285

Saw this while at a gas station parking lot, does anyone happen to know what kind of plane this is?

5 Comments
2025/01/29
17:08 UTC

26

Whats this at CFB Comox

I saw this on Google maps at CFB Comox. Was really confused as to what it could be.

18 Comments
2025/01/29
06:07 UTC

17

Is anyone able to identify what type of C-130 this cockpit came from? Was used as a training cockpit for the C/KC-130T, now on display at the Pax River Air Museum.

9 Comments
2025/01/29
05:21 UTC

46

KHSA, 01-28-2025, What are these?

4 Comments
2025/01/28
20:45 UTC

1

Long shot, but need help identifying a plane from a few months ago

So the plane in question isn't the Italian Airforce's plane that they used for the display, but one I saw the next day. It was a smaller fighter with a canard wing design, and from the angle I observed it from it almost looked like an f-22 or f-35. It was pretty quiet and stuck out to me since it definitely didn't look american. This was back in August on the Hudson River, if anyone was around at that time and remembers seeing it please let me know. I found a video of the Frecce Tricolori taking off from the base in NJ but didn't see the fighter taking off with them or in the background. Link is for the time frame the plane was seen.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/italian-air-force-to-fly-over-hudson-river-when-to-watch/ar-AA1oFfER

13 Comments
2025/01/28
17:56 UTC

129

Is this a C-5 or a C-17 ? Can’t wrap my head around it, how do we identify that ?

23 Comments
2025/01/28
03:05 UTC

23

Found this while looking through weird Google images

8 Comments
2025/01/28
02:26 UTC

2

Website to help identify military aircraft from satellite view ?

Hi,

I'd like to identify some military aircrafts from google map, however it's kinda hard because I am not a specialist. I'd like to know if there was a website or database similar to https://warsearcher.com/shipsearcher/ but for aircrafts (warsearcher is for ships), where I have examples of what are common aircrafts for each countries, with some image examples ?

Thank you

1 Comment
2025/01/26
22:21 UTC

112

KGPT I think these are F-35s

21 Comments
2025/01/26
16:17 UTC

156

What are these planes flying over California?

36 Comments
2025/01/25
22:38 UTC

40

What are these? KGPT

4 Comments
2025/01/25
20:51 UTC

27

Spotted at Munich Airport, January 21st, 2025

8 Comments
2025/01/25
07:54 UTC

69

best i could get. i was blindly taking pictures while driving

33 Comments
2025/01/24
21:25 UTC

3 Comments
2025/01/24
21:21 UTC

38

E-2? Near BLV/ScottAFB

4 Comments
2025/01/24
02:14 UTC

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