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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!) Founded 2008 · 143.3K members

139.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.2K upvotes, which works out to 66 per 1,000 members.

66peak upvotes per 1,000 members
139.8Kmembers
9.2Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

47% 40% 13%
Video 47% Image 40% Gallery 13%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Video | Others 26 Picture | Others 17 Picture | Military 15 Video | Boeing 11 Picture | Boeing 5 Question | General 4 What is this plane? 3 Discussion | General 3 Question | Others 3 Video | General 3

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

C-130 Cloud Seeding

↑ 9.2K 💬 495 video 2026

How the engine cut-off switches work in the Boeing 787 involved in the Air India Crash

↑ 8.9K 💬 911 video 2025

Why do planes have buttholes?

↑ 7.6K 💬 695 image 2025

The difference in size between a 777X and a 737 Max is insane.

↑ 6.8K 💬 147 image 2025

What is this?

↑ 6.6K 💬 1.7K gallery 2025

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

↑ 5.9K 💬 121 video 2025

Delta Airlines Boeing 767 engine caught fire.

↑ 5.7K 💬 538 video 2025

Cockpit landing view B737-200

↑ 5.7K 💬 886 video 2026

787 Fuel cutoff switches

↑ 5.6K 💬 1.2K video 2025

The only picture ever taken of a concord flying at mach 2 (1985)

↑ 5.4K 💬 78 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/airplanes, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/airplanes?
r/airplanes describes itself this way: 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!). It was founded in 2008 and has 143.3K members.
How many members does r/airplanes have?
r/airplanes has about 139.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.2K upvotes, which is 66 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/airplanes?
"C-130 Cloud Seeding" reached 9.2K upvotes and 495 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/airplanes.
What subreddits are similar to r/airplanes?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/airplanes?
Of the posts we hold, 47% are video posts and 40% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/airplanes?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 19:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/airplanes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/airplanes has 3.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/airplanes, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.