r/aviation is a subreddit with 2.8M members. The community frequently discusses aircraft, flight, looking for a, plane, and aviation, and they frequently recommend/review flight school, weather app, and flight bag, and the most common flair used is planespotting, question, discussion, news, and history.
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Popular Topics in r/aviation
#1
Aircraft
92 posts
#2
Flight
64 posts
#3
Looking For A
49 posts
#4
Plane
41 posts
#5
Aviation
36 posts
#6
Looking For
29 posts
#7
Worst
29 posts
#8
Airport
26 posts
#9
Pilot
24 posts
#10
Hate
23 posts
Products Discussed in r/aviation
Flight School
4 reviews
#1
Frederick Flight Center
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Brett Aviation
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Monarch Air
4.0★ from 1 review
Weather App
3 reviews
#1
MyRadar
5.0★ from 3 reviews
Flight Bag
3 reviews
#1
Contrail
5.0★ from 1 review
#2
Brightline
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
AOPA
4.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/aviation
#1
PlaneSpotting
: "Swiss f/a 18 Axlap live fire range from a few years ago."
19 posts
#2
Question
: "What are these?"
15 posts
#3
Discussion
: "Lears, and the boogyman"
13 posts
#4
News
: "N313DG Cirrus SR22 Crash at Lake of the Ozarks - 2 Dead"
8 posts
#5
History
: "One Year Ago Today, on November 4th, 2025, UPS Airlines Flight 2976 Crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, Killing 15 People."
6 posts
#6
Analysis
: "JetBlue Pilot declares Emergency to ignore ATC instruction and avoid Thunderstorm over Florida (Sept. 3, 2026)"
5 posts
#7
Career Question
: "I'm kind of stuck..."
3 posts
#8
Identification
: "Wrong plane"
2 posts
#9
Watch Me Fly
: "Found in my archives: October 29, 2005. AMS - YYZ, being passed by another Queen of the Skies over the North Atlantic."
1 post
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Last updated: November 5, 2026