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, news, question, discussion, 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
: "Was at the Udvar-Hazy Center last weekend"
76 posts
#2
News
: "F-35 Sale To Saudi Arabia Approved By State Department"
25 posts
#3
Question
: "Flour Bombing Contest. Any good stories about this pastime or its ...ahem... more obscure variant?"
22 posts
#4
Discussion
: "Former KLM CEO’s power bank catches fire on flight to Curaçao. Plane forced to turn around mid-flight"
19 posts
#5
History
: "The Me- 323 Gigant. Footage from world war 2."
16 posts
#6
Analysis
: "Istanbul Airport compared to Central Istanbul."
4 posts
#7
Watch Me Fly
: "Good gravy the wing on an A380 is enormous"
3 posts
#8
Identification
: "ReBoot S2E2 High code, Easter egg of "blink and you'll miss it" mirrored vidwindow text turns out to be an annunciator panel from an airplane, but which?"
3 posts
#9
-- SEATBELTS FASTENED --
: "Sensitive F-35 parts (including stealth canopy) somehow ended up in Hong Kong during transit from Australia to the US — Congress is investigating"
1 post
#10
Career Question
: "Can I be an airline pilot with level 1 Autism?"
1 post
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Last updated: September 20, 2026