Aircraft Recognition

Reference source: https://www.aircraftrecognitionguide.com/

The parts of an aircraft that can be used for recognition:

• Nose
• Landing gear
• Tail cone
• Wing
• Engine

B777

B777 major feature: flat, squared off tail cone

• Boeing 777 has six wheels per leg (main landing gear)

• typical flat, squared off tail cone

• Boeing 777-200, -200ER and 300 are not raked – normal, squared off wing tips

• The Boeing 777F, 777-200LR and 777-300ER have raked wingtips

• The Boeing 777-9 have folding wingtips

B747

B747 major feature: partial upper deck

• partial upper deck

• APU exhaust in the middle of the tail cone

• Boeing 747-400F & 747-400ERF has winglets, but a short upper deck. Of course there are no cabin windows on the lower deck and only front and rear cabin doors.

• Boeing 747-8s and 8Fs have raked wingtips like on the 767-400ER.

A320/A321

• Nose is relatively blunt
• Nose of A320 series, with cut off corner of last cockpit window and slightly tilted forward nose gear.

• The Airbus A320-200 originally came with small winglets up and down from the wingtips (wingtip fence).
• The Airbus A320-200 originally have two over­wing emergency exits

• A320neo has  ‘sharklets‘ as wingtip device

• A321 originally has large emergency exits, in front of and behind the wings. These are nearly as large as the normal passenger doors
• A321 originally come with small winglets up and down from the wingtips (wingtip fence)

• Shown here is an Airbus A321neo, with the standard A321 cabin door configuration, but it has ‘sharklets‘ as wingtip device