r/aviation • • 16d ago

-- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- [MEGATHREAD] FlyDubai FZ1073

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r/aviation • • Jan 24 '26

Announcement Introducing "Seatbelts Fastened" Mode

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Hi r/aviation community,

Recently, we’ve seen an increase in political and uncivil comments across several threads, particularly on posts involving aircraft associated with government officials. This has led to more removals and bans under Reddit’s sitewide rules, and we want to reverse that trend.

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r/aviation • • 56m ago

Question Why do commercial aircraft test pilots wear these outfits? Is it in case they need to jump out of the aircraft in mid-air? Or do the test aircraft somehow have ejection seats like fighter aircraft?

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r/aviation • • 6h ago

Discussion Three Thai Airways A380s just sitting there. [BKK]

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545 Upvotes

Weird to see three of these aircrafts just sitting there.


r/aviation • • 51m ago

PlaneSpotting Flight tests of the Electra EL-2 Goldfinch, an experimental hybrid STOL (short takeoff and landing) aircraft

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Maas Aviation
Flight tests of the Electra EL-2 Goldfinch, an experimental hybrid STOL (short takeoff and landing) aircraft, are taking place over the Hudson River in New York. The aircraft performs maneuvers at extremely low altitudes, taking off and landing on a special floating pier off the coast of Manhattan, escorted by a helicopter.


r/aviation • • 3h ago

History TU144D Cockpit

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I posted a picture of the Tu144D cockpit about a week back. Here is the full video.
Much more roomy than the Concorde, but feels 20 years behind it.

- Tupolev 144D CCCP-77112 - Technik Museum Sinsheim


r/aviation • • 13h ago

Analysis Fighter tailing passenger jet in Vancouver?

824 Upvotes

Could be totally off, but saw this happening from a ways away, so I know it’s not an optical illusion. Saw the smaller plane above, below, and on either side of the larger (presumably commercial) jet, matching speed the whole time. Never seen something like this


r/aviation • • 16h ago

History Can we have a thread to show some love to the fantastic aerobatic team that is the Canadian Forces’ Snowbirds?

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They completed their final performance in their current aircraft today 🥲, and are now stood down, awaiting the full complement of their new machines before they return to the skies (anticipated sometime in the 2030’s)

I’m sure they are amongst us (both past and present team members), and I’m sure they’d appreciate it!

Post your favourite memories of their performances and/or meeting the pilots!

(📸: https://skiesmag.com/features/golden-anniversary-canadian-forces-snowbirds-military-aerobatics/?amp)


r/aviation • • 14h ago

Identification Spotted on a train in western Montana

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Can anyone tell me more information about what I’m looking at? Obviously a fuselage but just wondering what kind, where it’s from and where it might be headed? Just curious! Thanks all.


r/aviation • • 6h ago

Discussion Piper Tomahawk crash near Stirling

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A 16-year-old boy and 80-year-old man have died following a light aircraft crash near Loch Lomond.
Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash at about 16:45 on Friday.
The boy and man were pronounced dead and their next of kin have been made aware, police said.
Temporary airspace restrictions are currently in place over the area while the Air Accidents Investigation Branch conduct their inquiries.

The Piper Tomahawk II aircraft took off from Glasgow Airport on Friday afternoon at 16:17.
It stopped transmitting at 16:37, a few miles north east of Drymen in Stirling.
Earlier the plane had taken off from Cumbernauld Airport at 11:46 on Friday morning, before flying 15 minutes to Glasgow Airport.
It stayed there until around 13:00, before doing a two-hour flight north east to Newport on Tay before turning round and heading back to Glasgow.
It was on the ground at the airport for just over an hour before it took off again and started its final flight.


r/aviation • • 23h ago

PlaneSpotting US Air Force museum, Dayton, Ohio

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August 14th, 2026


r/aviation • • 14h ago

PlaneSpotting F33A and GT3-RS

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r/aviation • • 12h ago

PlaneSpotting Steep md11 takeoff at Boston logan!

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r/aviation • • 10h ago

Analysis Indian Air Force's 3x Rafale fighters spotted from satellite image at Ambala AFS (home to no.17 sqn golden arrows)

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The Image is OC from Google earth sat image (latest at ambala AFS, Haryana, India)


r/aviation • • 18h ago

PlaneSpotting Your chances of being stalked by a P-8 in your front yard are low, but never zero.

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[OC] P-8 doing some touch and goes nearby…passed right over my house, didn’t even have to drive to the airport to get some decent shots.


r/aviation • • 13h ago

PlaneSpotting What's happening over Vancouver? Photo shoot?

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Spotted near Stanley Park at 1800 local time.


r/aviation • • 2h ago

PlaneSpotting AA Astrojet sighting at MIA

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I saw someone posted this a year ago and everyone started posting pics so I’m reviving the thread!


r/aviation • • 4h ago

Analysis TAIC identifies component defect linked to Airbus A320 engine shutdowns

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I just stumbled across this aviation safety report from November last year.

An interesting read, but TL;DR:

An uncommanded shutdown of an Air New Zealand A320 engine was due to the *self-activation* of a switch. 

Kinda nuts to think an engine could roll back because a switch spontaneously popped out of its latched position.


r/aviation • • 12h ago

PlaneSpotting A glimpse of Air Canada doing filming for their new Airbus A321XLR (flight AC7101) over Vancouver / Vancouver Island

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r/aviation • • 23h ago

Discussion "0.18% of Americans are D1 athletes, and 0.14% of Americans hold a pilots license.. know how elite we are" type stuff is so corny

778 Upvotes

I'm working through my pilots license. Love it.

My Instagram reels have been clogged with some hilarious young pilot ego posting though. Don't get me wrong, it's a challenge to get your license, but it's basically pay to play, if you want to be a pilot, you usually can get there. The fact that less Americans have private pilots licenses than there are D1 athletes does not mean it's more elite. There's even less Americans that paramotor, yet somehow they're not acting like they made it into the navy seals when they zoom around in their parachutes as a 0.001%er.

Call out the cornballs as you see them lol.


r/aviation • • 33m ago

PlaneSpotting Sunrise and Planes potting. MIA 5K runway run

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Got to run on an active runway today during the MIA 5K runway run. Snapped a few shots of the aircraft lineup and sunrise over the runway .. Aviation heaven!


r/aviation • • 19h ago

PlaneSpotting Enjoy the startup of the French Navy Rafale's two M88 turbojet engines

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r/aviation • • 19h ago

PlaneSpotting As we say farewell to the Canadair CT-114 Tutor, here are a few of my favourite pics that I’ve taken of them over the years

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r/aviation • • 16h ago

PlaneSpotting San Francisco Fleet Week, Blue Angels. My first shot at high speed aviation photography (usually I shoot commercial/passenger)

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125 Upvotes

r/aviation • • 20h ago

News FAA set to approve MAX 10 as soon as next week after TCB met

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