Archive of website updates
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KAI KUH-1, VF-600W & Tu-160 added
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- 24 March 2026
Again three new aircraft types were added to the website. Now you can read all about recognising the versions of the KAI KUH-1 family,... -
P-750, US-1A/US-2 & EH101/AW101 added
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- 08 March 2026
Finally, there is an update of the website again, but it includes the EH101/AW101 that has a lot of different versions that can nearly all be... -
IA-50 Guaraní, Dauphin & B-21 added
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- 18 January 2026
On with the content with three pages added. The first one is for the FMA IA-50 Guaraní. Next are all the versions of the Dauphin/Panther helicopter,... -
General update and layout change
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- 04 January 2026
The last couple of months I have been focussing on a general update of the site, to make it more appealing and easier to navigate. The... -
A129/T129, AW249 and Grob Ranger added
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- 09 November 2025
Another three types were added, two helicopters (Agusta A129/T129 and Leonardo AW249 Fenice) and one airplane, the Grob G160 Ranger. -
Chengdu J-10, Grob Egrett & Beech Travel Air/Baron added
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- 09 October 2025
It has been a while that we've added new aircraft types to the website. But now you can read all about recognising the different versions... -
Eurocopter Tiger, Aero L-39, DHC-2 & An-22 added
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- 18 August 2025
No less than four new aircraft types received a full dedicated page. These are the Eurocopter (Airbus) Tigre/Tiger, Aero L-39 Albatros family,... -
An-22 & PA-34 added
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- 10 July 2025
Updating the website has been slow the last time, due to other commitments. But now you can enjoy two new pages, one for the mighty... -
SOCATA TB-30 & Evektor EV-55 added
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- 25 May 2025
Two new aircraft types for you today, the SOCATA TB-30 Epsilon/TB-31 Oméga, and the Evektor EV-55 Outback. -
HS748 & Epic Elite/Victory added
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- 01 May 2025
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Antonov An-72 & Leonardo AW139 family added
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- 06 April 2025
Since today, the pages for the Antonov An-72/An-74 and the AW139 family are online. The latter contains the AW139, AW149/AW189 and AW169. -
Cessna Skymaster & MD900 added
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- 09 March 2025
Two new aircraft families have received their own page, that of the Cessna Skymaster (model 336/337 and O-2) and the MD Helicopters MD900. Furthermore, I... -
An-148 & Su-27 family added
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- 02 March 2025
After a lot of research, with much help of Alexander Werwein (many thanks Alex!), I added all the versions of the Flanker family to the... -
Viscount, An-124, An-225, G222 and Caravelle added
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- 12 January 2025
In the first major update of 2025 we added and expanded no less than five pages, for the Vickers Viscount, Antonov An-124, Antonov... -
NH90 and Cessna 310 added
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- 19 December 2024
After quite some research, a page was added with the many versions of the Cessna 310 (and 320). Also, I expanded the page for the NH90. -
PZL SW-4 & COMAC C909 added
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- 24 November 2024
Another two aircraft types received their own page, the PZL SW-4 helicopter, and the COMAC C909 jet airliner, that was previously known as... -
Cessna 303, Cirrus VK30 & Comp Air 6.2 added
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- 16 November 2024
Three small airplanes were added. The Cessna 303 and Cirrus VK30 both received their own page. The Comp Air 6.2 was added to the page for... -
Robinson helicopter family added
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- 01 November 2024
It has been a while, but today I added a new page that covers the whole Robinson helicopter family, the R22, R44 and R66. -
Bell 505 & Kodiak added
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- 24 September 2024
After a month of small updates, mainly adding airplanes and helicopters to the overview pages, we have now added two aircraft type pages,... -
Lockheed TriStar and Yakovlev MC-21 added
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- 20 August 2024
No less than two jet airliners were added to the website, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and Yakovlev (nee Irkut) MC-21. -
Beechcraft Denali added
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- 14 August 2024
After collecting a lot of future content at the EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, the first result is the addition of a page for the Beechcraft... -
Bell AH-1 Cobra family added
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- 17 July 2024
There is a new page about the Bell AH-1 Cobra family, and when you read it, you will notice that there is a long list of features to keep... -
Avro Vulcan added, several pages updated
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- 03 July 2024
Another update featuring the addition of a page for the Avro Vulcan! Additionally, with feedback from you I have updated the pages for... -
Bell 429 added, F-16 updated
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- 23 June 2024
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Textron Scorpion and Dassault Falcon 5X/6X added
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- 02 June 2024
Two very different aircraft families were added today. The first one is for the Textron AirLand Scorpion, that is not really a family of... -
Beech T-34 and Fuji T-5/T-7 added
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- 23 May 2024
Three new aircraft types were added, but as they are very similar, this wasn't such a large effort. We are talking about the Beech T-34... -
Airbus A300 & A310 added
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- 30 April 2024
This Airbus family was one of the last major western built jetliners that didn't have a page with all the version descriptions yet. But... -
Short Belfast added
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- 21 April 2024
Just a small update this time, featuring a new page for the Short SC5 Belfast. Other updates are small corrections and additions to... -
F-15 Eagle and AH-64 Apache added
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- 07 April 2024
After quite extensive research I added a page with all the versions of the Boeing F-15 Eagle and one for the AH-64 Apache. -
COMAC C919 and Mil V-12 added
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- 13 March 2024
Two aircraft with - so far - a single version have been added, the COMAC C919 and Mil V-12. This first page is likely to be extended in... -
Tupolev 154 added
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- 29 February 2024
Again, I added a jet airliner to the website. Now you can learn how to distinguish the versions of the Tupolev Tu-154. -
DC-9/MD-80 family & Alouette III added
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- 22 February 2024
Although the basic page existed for a long time, I have finally completed the page for the Douglas DC-9 family, that runs from the DC-9... -
Boeing 737 and 767 updated
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- 30 January 2024
The pages for the Boeing 737 and Boeing 767 were significantly updated, amongst others with better descriptions of all vesions and more... -
Jetstream and Beechcraft T-6 added
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- 21 January 2024
Two new aircraft types got their page with details about subtypes today, the Handley Page/British Aerospace Jetstream family and the... -
Mil Mi-38 added & other updates
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- 12 January 2024
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Airbus H160 added
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- 26 December 2023
Most recent content updates to the website have been limited to fixing and updating existing pages. However, I added one page, for the... -
Boeing 747 and Bell 222/230/430 added
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- 23 November 2023
During the last two weeks I added two new aircraft families to the website, for the Boeing 747 and Bell 222/230/430 respectively... -
BK117 and Hawk added
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- 05 November 2023
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Bréguet Atlantic & Aero L-29 added
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- 19 October 2023
Since today you can read about the different versions of two more aircraft types, the Bréguet Atlantic (or Atlantique) and the Aero L-29... -
Mitsubishi SpaceJet added
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- 14 October 2023
Another new aircraft type was added to the website, namely the Mitsubishi SpaceJet, originally known as Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ)... -
Airbus H175 & Piper PA-46 added
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- 22 September 2023
Two aircraft families received their own page, the Airbus Helicopters H175 (also known as Avicopter AC352), and the Piper PA-46 family,... -
Dassault (Super) Étendard added
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- 27 August 2023
A new page was added for these two generations French naval fighter, the Étendard IV and Super Étendard. -
Fokker F27 & Cessna SkyCourier added
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- 12 August 2023
This week no less than two aircraft got their own page on the website, the Fokker F27 (including the Fokker 50/60) and the Cessna 408... -
Saab Gripen added
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- 29 July 2023
It has been a while since we added a new aircraft type to the website. There were only small additions and updates. But now you can read... -
Helicopters added!
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- 03 June 2023
Some five years after the start of the website finally you can now also use it to identify helicopters! Like for airplanes you can fill in... -
Transall C-160 added
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- 19 May 2023
Unfortunately, the Transall C-160 is not operational anymore, but you can now read about all the different versions and how to recognise them... -
Britten-Norman Trislander & Lockheed F-117 added
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- 07 May 2023
Two new pages were added, one for the Britten-Normen Trislander and the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk. -
Piper Navajo/Cheyenne added
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- 30 April 2023
Today I completed the page for the PA-31 series, with the model names (Pressurized) Navajo, Chieftain, Mojave and Cheyenne. Yu can find it... -
KAI T-50 Golden Eagle added
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- 12 April 2023
Another figher airplane has earned its own page, this time the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) T-50/TA-50/FA-50. -
YS-11 added
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- 04 April 2023
The latest addition to the website is the NAMC YS-11, the first civil Japanese transport aircraft designed after the second world war, and... -
F-16 added!
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- 21 March 2023
A big update this time, with a page added with all the different versions of the General Dynamics/Lockheed-Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon! The details of... -
Canadair CL-215 series added
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- 12 March 2023
While working on research to describe all the F-16 fighter versions, I added a new aircraft to the website, the Canadair CL-215, now... -
Search menu is back
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- 19 February 2023
As a replacement for the previous search module I implemented a special version of the Google search engine on the website. This allows... -
Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey added
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- 08 February 2023
For the first time I have added a page for a tiltrotor aircraft to the website, the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. Later more will be added, as... -
Learjets updated
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- 26 January 2023
A small update this time, with an addition to the Learjets page. Thanks to Phil Hawks for pointing out another significant difference... -
CN-235 & C-295 added
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- 15 January 2023
Before I focus on some technical updates of the site have have added one more new page to the site. This one is about the CASA/IPTN CN-235... -
AMX and Sukhoi Superjet added
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- 11 January 2023
The first two new aircraft types added to the website in 2023 are for the AMX International AMX and the Sukhoi Superjet. More the follow! -
DHC-3 and Metro/Merlin added
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- 24 December 2022
Two updated pages again, with a description of how to recognise all the different variants. The first one is for the deHavilland-Canada DHC-3... -
Update PC-6
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- 10 December 2022
A small update only this time, but at least one that allows you to see what a Pilatus PC-6/A looks like, and an example of a Learjet 85,... -
T-2 Buckeye added
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- 22 November 2022
Another aircraft type was added to the website, this time the North American (Rockwell) T-2 Buckeye jet trainer. Five different versions were... -
Updates 14 November
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- 14 November 2022
Today we have some small updates to existing pages. Thanks to you aviation enthusiasts I have added photos of an Embraer E175-E2,... -
Aermacchi MB339 added
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- 09 November 2022
I just finished a page with all the subtypes of the Aermacchi MB339jet trainer, that is in use by nearly ten operators, including two... -
Updates 1 November
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- 01 November 2022
Today the Rockwell Commander 700, a.k.a. Fuji FA-300, was added to the webside. I also updated the pages of the Tecnam P2012 and HondaJet... -
Beechcraft Queen/King Air added
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- 16 October 2022
After quite extensive research I finally completed the page that describes all the variants of the Beechcraft Queen Air and low tail King... -
Grumman Mallard & BAe146 added
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- 29 September 2022
On the verge of September I have added to new aircraft to the wbesite, for the Grumman G.73 Mallard amphibian and the British Aerospace... -
Swearingen Merlin added
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- 04 September 2022
Already in late August I added a dedicated webpage for the Swearingen Merlin and Merlin IIA/B bsuiness turboprops. For the rest no updates... -
Updates August 2022
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- 17 August 2022
The last weeks no pages were added to the website, but look forward to new types being added soon. Instead, dozens of aircraft types were... -
Canadair CL-41 Tutor added
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- 24 July 2022
Just before going on holiday I managed to add a new webpage for the Canadair CL-41 (CT-114) Tutor jet trainer. Next weeks will proabably be... -
New: Embraer C-390 & Rysachok
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- 18 July 2022
Another two aircraft now have their own page. The first one is for the Embraer C-390 Millenium transport aircraft. The other describes the... -
Harrier added
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- 08 July 2022
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Tecnam P2012 Traveller added
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- 23 June 2022
One dedicated page was added, for the Tecnam P2012 Traveller, plus a few new aircraft to be searched via their characteristics. -
MS760 Paris & Cessna 700 added
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- 12 June 2022
Finally, I can report the addition of two new pages to the website, one for the Morane-Saulnier MS760 Paris and one for the Cessna 700... -
Differences Falcon 7X/8X updated
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- 29 May 2022
Thanks to Joe Carrigan I learned that there are more differences between the Falcon 7X and Falcon 8X than I knew. So I have updated the... -
Saab 105 & Dornier Seastar added
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- 30 April 2022
This week I added pages for the Saab 105, aka Sk60 in the Swedish air force, and the Dornier Seastar amphibian. Both have multiple... -
DC-10 & MD-11 added
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- 25 April 2022
Yes, finally I managed to add a full page again, this time for the McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 and MD-11. Go check out how to recognise all... -
TBM-960 included on TBM page
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- 20 April 2022
Just a small addition today: I have added the new Daher TBM-960 to the page of the TBM series. Not much to tell though as it is... -
ATR42/ATR72 added
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- 08 April 2022
It has been a while that I updated the website, but now you can find details on how to distinguish all the subtypes of the ATR42 and ATR72. -
Northrop B-2 and Learfan added
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- 20 March 2022
Finally, we have something to report again, as two new aircraft got their own page, the Northrop B-2 Spirit and the LearAvia Learfan 2100... -
Concorde and Tu-144 added
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- 06 March 2022
It has been a while since the last update, but from now on you can read all about the difference between the two supersonic passenger... -
PZL130 added
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- 16 February 2022
Another high performance turboprop trainer was added today, the PZL130 (Turbo) Orlik. As you can find out the first version looked a lot... -
Comp Airs added
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- 08 February 2022
The last days I have added pages for two Comp Air aircraft, the Comp Air 9 and Comp Air 12. Also I have added photos of the Silver Eagle 340... -
Photos added
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- 02 February 2022
Again I added some missing photos. A photo of a King Air 200CT was kindly provided by Carlos P. Valle C. Steve Nation gave me permission... -
Avtek 400 added
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- 01 February 2022
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Photos added
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- 30 January 2022
Today I added photos of the Beech 350C, Boeing 727-100QF, Boeing 737 MAX8200 and Boeing 757 Combi. These subtypes had no example photo yet. -
Vanguard and Rockwell B-1 added
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- 29 January 2022
Two completely different aircraft received their dedicated pages today. The first is for the Vickers Vanguard propliner and the other of... -
Twin Commander completed
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- 27 January 2022
After many hours of research I completed an overview of the Twin Commander family, originally developed by Aero Commander and later by... -
New page for Cessna T-37
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- 13 January 2022
This 1950s era jet trainer was still missing on the website, so I have made a basic page for the Cessna T-37. Later I will expand it with... -
Shorts 330/360 added
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- 11 January 2022
The first update of the year 2022 brings you a double feature, on the Shorts 330 and Shorts 360. Both have received dedicated pages with... -
PC-12 updated
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- 30 December 2021
Another PC-12 modification programme came to my attention, so I have added the Super Legacy XP to the PC-12 page. -
D-Jet and Hürkuş added
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- 21 December 2021
Another two aircraft types received their own page, the Diamond D-Jet very light jet and the TAI Hürkuş turboprop trainer. -
Updates 18 december
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- 18 December 2021
Already a few months ago Tamarack Aerospace announced a winglet upgrade for the King Air 200, 300 and 350 series. I have now added to the... -
Pilatus PC-12 added
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- 14 December 2021
Last weekend I completed the page for the Pilatus PC-12, now with all the different versions. Furthermore a basic page for the Northrop... -
Cessna 340 added
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- 05 December 2021
Today a page for the Cessna 340 and all subtypes was added. I'm still missing photos of some conversions. Maybe you can help? -
New layout, search option added
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- 30 November 2021
I have changed the layout of the website a little bit, which hopefully makes it easier to navigate are read. This especially concerns the... -
Update November 2021
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- 14 November 2021
We are still working on a technical update of the website, including a different design. That's why there have been many new aircraft... -
Update September 2021
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- 28 September 2021
With september coming to an end, it is time to update you about new aircraft types we've added. Since the last update we have included... -
Update July 2021
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- 25 July 2021
Two months have past since we last notified you here of website updates. Apart from 'behind the scenes' work we managed to added new... -
May 2021: new types added
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- 12 May 2021
It has been a while that we have announced new aircraft types added to the website: Boeing (McDonnell-Douglas) F/A-18 Hornet, Cessna 400... -
March update
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- 27 March 2021
Since the last website update article we have added pages for the following types: Boeing 767, Cessna 208 Caravan, Embraer EMB100/... -
Mid February update
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- 14 February 2021
If you have been following our Facebook or Instagram account that you already know that we have added multiple aircraft types. These are... -
Welcome to 2021!
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- 03 January 2021
Happy new year to all of you! At the start of the 2021 we have four of new aircraft types added to the website. These are the Fokker F28,... -
Updates 20 December 2020
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- 20 December 2020
New types for you to explore on the website are the deHavilland Canada DHC-8, Kawasaki C-1, Panavia Tornado, Scaled Composites 271... -
Eight new types added November
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- 28 November 2020
It has been quite for a while on the update list, but we can announce that no less than eight new aircraft types have been added to the... -
New turboprop trainers added
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- 14 October 2020
Last weeks we have dug into the high performance turboprop aircraft. These all looks much the same, but now you can find out what the... -
Three new types added
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- 15 August 2020
We have added three new aircraft types to the website, all with full descriptions on how to distinguish the different subtypes, These are... -
Landing gear configuration added
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- 29 July 2020
Now that we are adding more older aircraft types to the website, we have added the landing gear configuation to the filtering parameters... -
Dornier 328 and Kawasaki T-4 added
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- 21 July 2020
Even though it is holiday time we still manage to add new aircraft types to the website. Go check out how to recognise the Dornier 328... -
Aircraft Recognition Guide on social media
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- 07 June 2020
As off today there is a new way to stay up to date with Aircraft Recognition Guide. Just follow us on Facebook or Instagram. Click on the... -
Five additional aircraft types added
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- 17 May 2020
We continue to expand the website with the addition of full descriptions of no less than five new aircraft types, the Adam A700, British... -
New types added
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- 18 April 2020
We continue the work behind the scenes but have also added full descriptions of the following aircraft types: Cessna Conquest II,... -
Piaggio Avanti added
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- 23 February 2020
Most updates the last months have been largely unvisible, but sometimes we add a full aircraft type for the list. This time it concerns... -
Embraer Phenom 300 and Airbus A400 added
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- 21 November 2019
While we have been mostly working on adding propeller aircraft to the 'search by airplane characteristics' page, we also managed to make... -
IAI bizjets added
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- 13 September 2019
Three more bizjet aircraft types are ready to be explored, to learn how to recognise them. These are the Jet Commander & Westwind series,... -
Boeing updates
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- 29 August 2019
Today we have worked out all the variants of the Boeing 727, 757 and 777. Go check how to recognise them! -
Search by characteristics make-over
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- 10 June 2019
It has been a while that we last updated the website. We have been working hard on the search by characteristics page. This is now much... -
New additions February
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- 10 February 2019
Finally we found time for an update again. Three new types are ready to be explored: the British Aerospace 125 series, Falcon 10/100 and... -
Update 2019 #1
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- 07 January 2019
The first updates of 2019 is a big one. First of all we have added overview pages for aircraft with jet engines mounted on top of the... -
New aircraft types 9 December 2018
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- 09 December 2018
We gradually increase the number of aircraft types for which a full description is available, including how to distinguish subtypes. Today... -
Cruciform tails added
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- 25 November 2018
We are one step closer to having an overview of all multi-jet-engine aircraft in the transport category. From now on all aircraft with a... -
Trijets added
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- 28 October 2018
We are now near having all multi-engine jet transport aircraft included in the search by characteristics page. From now on you can look up... -
Search by main aircraft type added
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- 22 October 2018
From now on you cannot only search by the characteristics of the aircraft you are looking for, but also directly by the combination of the... -
Embraer 170/190 family added
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- 17 October 2018
Today the details of the different members of the Embraer E-Jet family, the Embraer 170 until the 195, were added. It includes the E2... -
Cessna 650 & 750 added
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- 04 October 2018
Today two Cessna Citation types were added, the model 650 Citation III and the model 750 Citation. Check them out! -
Additions 23 September
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- 23 September 2018
Over the last two weeks we have added several overview pages. Check them out via the new 'search by characteristics' page, which is now... -
Additions 9 September
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- 09 September 2018
A lot of news this time. We have added overview pages for twin jet airplanes with low, swept wings with engines mounted under the wings and... -
Boeing 737 added
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- 01 September 2018
The first jetliner for which a page with all details about the different versions is ready: the Boeing 737! -
Twin jets, low straight/swept wing & T-tail added
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- 31 August 2018
The second and third overview pages are now ready. One is for all twin jet airplanes with low, straight wings with engines mounted at the... -
Bombardier Global series added
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- 23 August 2018
The second detailed description concerns the subtypes of the Bombardier Global series, so the Global Express, Global 5000, etc. -
Twin jets, high wing & T-tail added
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- 23 August 2018
The first overview page was made, for all twin jet airplanes with high wings with engines mounted under the wing, and a T-tail. -
Gulfstream large cabin jets added
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- 21 August 2018
Today we added a detailed description to recognise all different subtypes of the Gulfstream large cabin jets, so the G-II until G650ER.