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Aircraft Recognition Guide helps you recognise different types of aircraft.

12/10/2026

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) partnered up with AgustaWestland to develop this derivative of the A129. The T129 is mainly recognised by the different engine nacelles at the sides of the gear box hub, with canted air intakes with a round opening, and outward canted exhausts.

05/10/2026

The BAC One Eleven Series 400 and Series 475 are externally mostly the same, except for the wing tips. On the Series 475 the wingspan is larger and there is a bent in the trailing edge of the wing tips.

28/09/2026

In the early 1960s Piper wanted a light piston twin to replace the PA-23 Apache. Then its most current single engined plane was the PA-24 Comanche, and this was taken as the basis for a twin variant, the PA-30 Twin Comanche. Learn how to recognise it on the new page https://www.aircraftrecognitionguide.com/piper-pa-30

22/09/2026

Only France got a significantly updated Atlantique, that they call Atlantique 2, abbreviated to ATL2. It has larger cooling intakes at the side of the fuselage, no radome, no tube antenna on top of the vertical fin and a clean end of the MAD boom. The ATL2 has a chin turret with a FLIR camera though.

14/09/2026

The black Royal Air Force Hawk T1 is one of the Hawk Mk50 series, while the greens Saudi Hawk is a Mk65. Externally, the latter differ from the Mk50 by the addition of three small wing fences in side the existing larger one. However, the Mk51A has these as well…

09/09/2026

The Sikorsky H-53 family has always been the heaviest helicopter of ‘the west’. Now it is in its third generation, with the CH-53K King Stallion. You can read about how to distinguish it from older versions on the new page https://www.aircraftrecognitionguide.com/sikorsky-s-65.

01/09/2026

The Challenger 600S (top) and Challenger 601 (bottom) both have winglets and a short blunt tail cone. The difference is in the shape of the engine nacelles. Those of the 601 have a separate exhaust for the fan flow about halfway the nacelle. There is a single, combined exhaust on the 600S.

27/08/2026

There are just two jetliners with four engines attached to the rear fuselage in pairs, the Ilyushin Il-62 and Vickers VC10. For the latter there is now a dedicated page with all the civil and military versions described: https://www.aircraftrecognitionguide.com/vickers-vc10.

22/08/2026

The Fuji T-7 is a development of the Beech T-34, and especially the T-34C Turbo Mentor is similar as both have a tandem canopy and a turboprop engine. The T-34C has a straight vertical stabiliser, two ventral strakes, air intakes on both lower sides of the nose and exhaust on both sides of the nose.

18/08/2026

Ted Smith designed the fastest small piston twin airplane that was named Aerostar. Later Piper acquired the Aerostar and gave it designation PA-60. It has a typical mid-wing configuration and swept tail. Learn how to recognise all the versions on https://www.aircraftrecognitionguide.com/ted-smith-piper-aerostar.

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