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r/aviationNSFW

Aircraft, airplanes, aviation, and flying. Helicopters & rotorcraft, airships, balloons, paragliders, and anything that sustains you in the air is acceptable to post here. Please read our rules before posting, and check if there are megathreads active for any topics. Thank you for participating in the r/aviation community. Founded 2008 · 2.8M members

2.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 109.3K upvotes, which works out to 39 per 1,000 members.

39peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.8Mmembers
109.3Kbest post
6.6Kmost comments
1.1Kposts 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.

28% 27% 23% 9%
Video 28% Image 27% Gallery 23% Text 9% Question 7% Link 6%

The topics it labels

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

PlaneSpotting 448 News 138 Question 126 Discussion 121 History 76 -- SEATBELTS FASTENED -- 59 Watch Me Fly 46 Identification 15 Analysis 15 Career Question 13

What the ceiling looks like

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

Starship blew up in front of us. Had to divert

↑ 109.3K 💬 2.7K video 2025

This is actually terrifying

↑ 96.1K 💬 474 image 2025

Private jet causes Southwest to go around at Midway today. It crossed the runway while Southwest was landing.

↑ 95.7K 💬 6.6K video 2025

Why do some airbuses get slutty eye liner and some don't?

↑ 88.7K 💬 1.6K image 2024

Long Live The Ghost Of Kyiv

↑ 71.4K 💬 2K image 2022

The other new angle of the DCA crash

↑ 63.9K 💬 1.8K video 2025

Video of 172 dead stick landing at Riv

↑ 54.4K 💬 3.8K video 2025

It's not duct tape, it's speed tape that's $400 a roll

↑ 53.8K 💬 1.6K video 2022

Local news in LA caught this incredibly precise drop on the Kenneth fires

↑ 50.2K 💬 1.2K video 2025

Landing: Air Force vs Navy

↑ 49.1K 💬 2.1K video 2022

Communities its size

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

r/aviation, in numbers

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

What is r/aviation?
r/aviation describes itself this way: Aircraft, airplanes, aviation, and flying. Helicopters & rotorcraft, airships, balloons, paragliders, and anything that sustains you in the air is acceptable to post here. Please read our rules before posting, and check if there are megathreads active for any topics. Thank you for participating in the r/aviation community. It was founded in 2008 and has 2.8M members.
How many members does r/aviation have?
r/aviation has about 2.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 109.3K upvotes, which is 39 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/aviation?
"Starship blew up in front of us. Had to divert" reached 109.3K upvotes and 2.7K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/aviation.
What subreddits are similar to r/aviation?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/aviation?
Of the posts we hold, 28% are video posts and 27% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/aviation?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 00:00 UTC (29.1K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (23.9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 11:00 UTC (14.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/aviation?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/aviation has 39.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 337 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/aviation, 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.