Before going on a long business trip or vacation, you can look at which plane you are flying. Specialized portals on the Internet will help you find out the age of the liner, its model, as well as the operating history. AiF.ru has compiled a guide that will help you get acquainted with all the information you are interested in about the aircraft.
To obtain information on the age of the aircraft, its model and operating history, the following steps should be taken:
1. Find out your flight number. If it is not indicated on the ticket, you can view it on the website of the airline or the airport.
2. Find out the side number of the liner. To do this, on the website www.flightradar24.com, enter your flight number in the search box. After pressing the Enter key, a table will appear on the screen, in which in the "Aircraft" column, the model of the airliner (for example A333 or B738) will first be indicated, followed by its tail number (it is presented in the letter format AA-AAA).
If the flight number begins with the digit 0, then you do not need to enter it, that is, instead of SU 0520, enter SU520 in the search field.3. Enter the tail number of your liner in the search box on the website www.planespotters.net. After pressing the Enter key, a table will appear in front of you; click on the numbers written under the "c / n" column.
After that, data will appear on which airlines used the aircraft (Airline), when the plane made its first flight (First Flight), how old the liner is (Age), as well as information that may relate to accidents, if any (Remarks). Also on the same page are photographs of the aircraft and its cabin.
Can a carrier replace one liner with another?
Yes maybe. For example, if the plane is not completely filled or defective, the carrier can replace it. Passengers must be notified of this by the airline staff.
Is it possible to follow the flight route of the aircraft in real time?
Yes, you can. How to follow the flight route of an aircraft on which a loved one is flying on the website,
Hello travel lovers! With you again I am Elena Iskhakova. And we'll talk about how to recognize a plane by its flight number.
“I wonder how old the plane I'm going to fly today / tomorrow?”
"How many flights did he make during his working life on the plane?"
"What kind of aircraft is this anyway?"
Do you recognize yourself? I won't say that regularly, but from time to time such questions arise in my head. Having shoveled a mountain of material on the Internet, I came to a disappointing conclusion.
Airlines do not disclose the age of the aircraft we are going to travel on.
The average age of the company's fleet and the name of the models that are in this fleet are all that a traveler can recognize. And one more thing: before departure, the declared board can be easily replaced with another. However, don't be upset. A number of other equally useful data is hidden behind the combination of letters and numbers of the air route number.
In this article:
How to find out the flight number
Usually the flight number is indicated on the ticket or, in the case of e-ticket,. He looks something like this QF 8132 or such LH 1325.
But if you do not know the flight number, you can use Yandex. Schedule ". By typing the city of departure and the city of arrival in the appropriate line, you will receive all sorts of options. If you also know the time, then the task will be much easier.
The second option: you can see the scoreboard of the desired airport online. And the third option (not very convenient): call and go around airports.
Aircraft surveillance online
Having finally become the happy owner of information about the number of the flight of interest, you can contemplate it in real time. This can come in handy if you need to meet someone. That is, for example, you can make sure that the plane took off in the right direction and it's time to leave for the airport.
How it works?
The overwhelming majority of aircraft are equipped with special navigation devices. Their presence allows an aircraft to send a radio message about its coordinates, flight speed and altitude, and other useful data approximately every second.
What information do we receive?
- Where did the airliner of interest to us depart from?
- Where is going
- Where flies
- When it arrives.
I will name a few of the most famous air trackers - sites where you can track information about a flight:
Flaigtradar 24: on the interactive map you can watch the movement of the aircraft + additional information about the altitude and flight speed. The service is described in detail here:
Flaigt Aware: knowing the air carrier and the flight number, you will receive the necessary information about the plane's route + weather on the way, the time of the delay in boarding or departure, the numbers of counters and terminals for the exit.
Plane Finder: on the interactive map we find the plane we are interested in. By clicking on it, we get the following data: aircraft type, side number, route, speed and flight altitude. It's just tin, how many planes!
The services listed above can be accessed from both a computer and a mobile phone.
FlightHero Free - online Scoreboard and Flight Status (there is an application for iOS and Android). It will allow you to determine the exact location of the liner in space and its speed (if the aircraft is flying from / to America) or approximate for other air routes. Here you can also find the plane you want by flight number and date or by route and date. There are terminal schemes for large airports, which is sometimes very necessary.
And yet, the websites of some carriers (for example, Lufthansa, Aeroflot) also offer special applications for mobile devices that allow you to track the status of the flight.
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Today we will start a story about the most important sites that every advanced airline passenger should know. We will leave such network resources as airline websites, ticket search engines and online agencies for later, and now we will talk about how to find out the maximum details about your current, upcoming or past flight.
- a unique online radar showing in real time where, when and where which plane is flying. Aircraft data are taken from ADS-B transponders, which are equipped with a fairly large number of aircraft (alas, not all, but at least most modern ones). These transponders transmit the aircraft registration number, flight number, route, current coordinates, including altitude, and speed. All this data is displayed on the map, you can click on each moving plane and additionally view the flight trajectory up to the current moment and information about the board itself (its photo from one of the spotter resources is immediately loaded). You can also view this data on flights made in the recent past. Of the interesting functions, it is worth highlighting the ability to view “from the cockpit”. No, unfortunately, you will not see broadcasts from the camera there, but satellite images of the Earth in isometric projection, taking into account the height and speed, look beautiful. Since the ADS-B signal receivers from which the data are taken are installed by enthusiasts, Flightradar24's coverage of different territories of the world is not uniform. However, in most "civilized" places it is.
Practical benefits: find out which aircraft usually fly on the route you need. Find out when the plane on which you have to fly will arrive and why it is late. Make sure your relatives have flown perfectly. See what is so beautiful you saw through the window shortly after takeoff.
– an extensive database of aircraft: both brand new and long ago decommissioned. You can find out all the details about the aircraft's registration number - from age and operating history in various airlines (including details such as direct purchase or leasing) to the types of engines installed on it and the layout of the cabin (the number of seats in economy and business classes). Recently completed flights are also displayed, however, this data is entered manually by spotters who noticed the aircraft, and is not automatically taken from the same Flightradar24, so their relevance is not always one hundred percent. In addition, there is data on aircraft accidents in which the aircraft participated - usually with a link to an article with details. And, of course, photographs - where without them?
The site also maintains a database of airlines, allowing you to see how many aircraft each of them has and which ones. Airfleets.net works on the principle of crowdsourcing, that is, as in Wikipedia, anyone can add or clarify this or that information. But if on Airfleets.net bases are maintained mainly for foreign cars (of the Russian there is only "Superjet"), then Russianplanes.net -a similar site dedicated to domestic aircraft.
Practical benefits:find out how old the board on which you are flying, in order to casually throw an aerophobic neighbor: “” and observe his reaction. Compare the age of the aircraft and the condition of the cabin in order to form your own opinion about the attitude of the airline towards its passengers. Figure out where there might be good seats in the cabin. Write on Twitter: "I'm flying on a plane that just arrived from the factory yesterday."
– a site with live broadcasts of negotiations between pilots and air traffic controllers. Supported by enthusiasts who live near airports and have installed radios tuned to the desired frequencies. In this regard, not all airports in the world are supported, but the largest, including Russian ones, are in the database. You can listen to the broadcast directly on the site through a browser with Flash support or transfer the stream to any media player. There are also archives of negotiations.
As a rule, for each airport several streams from different frequencies ("Circle", "Tower", "Approach", etc.) are combined into one, and voice messages from them are broadcast one after another, which creates a kind of confusion on the air. For some airports (for example, Sheremetyevo), streams are split into stereo channels, allowing you to partially filter what you will hear. However, it is not enough to hear negotiations - in order to understand something, you need to know at least approximately the basic principles of radio exchange and basic terminology, as well as have some experience of negotiations on a walkie-talkie in order to parse the text.
For many airports, the current weather is also transmitted in METAR format - an ordinary person in such a report will not understand anything, but it is enough to read any article on this topic to learn a set of simple abbreviations.
Practical benefits:be aware of why the departure or arrival of the flight is delayed. If an unusual flight situation arises, find out what happened at all.
– a site with detailed plans of the aircrafts of various airlines. Moreover, in addition to the actual map of places, you can also see especially convenient ones and, conversely, uncomfortable places: It is clear that stretching out your legs at the emergency exit is always more pleasant than huddling near the toilet.
In addition, the database contains information about the distance between the rows and the width of the seats themselves, the availability of sockets and the entertainment system, which is especially important on long-haul flights. Moreover, if you enter information about your flight (date, number), the site will try to predict what type of aircraft will be used on it - this will help you choose good seats in advance. However, if an airline has many variations of the same type (for example, Airbus A319 / A320 / A321), then the predictor is usually wrong, so you cannot blindly trust him.
In addition, not many airlines are represented on the SeatGuru website (only Aeroflot is Russian), and for those that are presented, there are not all really existing layout options, so as an alternative you should definitely visit SeatExpert -here the set of airlines is somewhat different and there is, for example, Transaero.
Practical benefits:choose a convenient seat during online check-in or check-in at the airport. Compare different airlines in terms of cabin comfort.
ExpertFlyer -a multifunctional website for advanced passengers, where most of the functions (for example, searching for "mile" tickets) are paid - by the way, we will tell you about the search for such tickets separately - and for free on it you can view the current salon plans in real time with an indication of occupied and free seats ... At the same time, data on the attractiveness of a particular place are downloaded from SeatGuru. You can also subscribe to notifications that a particular place of interest to you has suddenly become available. Of course, not all airlines are supported.
Practical benefits:choose a good seat when checking in at the airport counter: you know exactly which good places freely and call it to the operator. Evaluate the occupancy of the cabin before departure and estimate whether you can count on an upgrade when overbooking or just go and lie down on a free row.
– a site that allows you to keep statistics of your flights, display on the map the places where you have been and the routes between them, count how many segments you have already flown this year. But the main thing is the "puzomerka": you can compete with your friends who have flown more.
The main advantage of JetLovers over other similar sites is that all flight statistics are automatically accumulated based on your check-ins in in social networks - Foursquare or Facebook. You can, however, add flights manually, but, firstly, you cannot add more of them than was determined automatically (i.e. for each flight with check-ins, you can add only one without check-ins), and secondly, is it possible to remember all your flights, say, the year before last?
For the raid, certain “ranks” and “levels” are awarded - from “flies” to “UFOs”, turning airplane flights into an exciting game - now you won't even want to travel by train for 300 kilometers! But if you want to be the first in the ranking - do not add as friends those who work as pilots of commercial airlines 😉
Practical benefits:check if you have earned miles for all flight segments. Show your friends and colleagues who is the most important flyer here.
Finding out which plane you will take on vacation is easy enough. The type of aircraft is indicated on the website of your airline in the flight data, and this information can also be found on the airport website in the flight schedule. However, sometimes the carrier can, if necessary, replace one liner with another if the plane is not completely full. This happens especially often with charter flights.
How do I know which plane will fly on a particular flight?
Your flight number is most often indicated on the ticket, but sometimes it is not written. In any case, it can always be found on the airline's website. After you have found out your flight number, you must:
1. Go to the website www.flightradar24.com.
2. Enter your flight number in the search box.
A table will appear on the screen, in which the flight date (Date), departure and arrival points (From and To columns), model and side number of your aircraft (“Aircraft” column) will be displayed on the left. For example: "A321 (VQ-BEG)", in which A321 is the liner model, and VQ-BEG is its tail number. Clicking on it displays information about all flights with this aircraft for the last time.
Where and how to find out the age of the aircraft and the history of its operation?
After you know the plane on which you will fly, you can view its age and operating history. This requires:
1. Enter the side number of the aircraft in the search box on the website www.planespotters.net
2. Click on the serial number of the found aircraft (column "c / n"). After that, information will appear about its first flight (First Flight), service life (Age), airlines (Airline) that used the ship and accidents (Remarks) with it, if any.
How can I follow the route of the flight?
If a person close to you is flying on the plane, then you can follow the flight route of the liner in real time. To do this, you need to enter the flight number into the search box on the website, after which you will be redirected to a page on which you will need to click either on the icon with an airplane, or on the icon with a triangular bracket (when you hover over it with the mouse cursor, the inscription Go to flight appears ). In the latter case, you can also monitor the speed and height of the flying liner.
