r/airplanes↗

Airplanes

We're all about airplanes! Planespotting, aviation, questions, discussion are all welcome. Please have fun, be respectful, and read our rules! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Besonders für Deutschsprachige: check out our new sister sub r/Flugzeug. (Genau wie r/airplanes, aber auf Deutsch!)

146k subscribers590 posts / mo in Sep 2026 (incl. ~1% by known bots)377 authors / mosince 2008

r/airplanes has 146k members (+39% over the last 12 months). It gets about 590 posts a month from 377 people. Top topics: Plane Identification, Aircraft Identification and Boeing 737 MAX.

Free report

When to post on r/airplanes

You've used today's free reports

Visitors without an account can open 3 subreddit reports a day. The best time to post on r/airplanes, removal risk and the rest of the report are one step away.

Size and growth

How r/airplanes has grown

r/airplanes

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+39%in 12 months · +6.2% in 3 months · +1.2% in 1 month

Oct 2026146k

r/airplanes

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+13%vs Sep 2025 · −1.5% last 3 months vs the 3 before

Sep 2026590

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/airplanes

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

Jetphotos
Wikimedia
Simple Flying
FlightAware
ADS-B Exchange

The full report

Everything else about r/airplanes

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research