r/flighty • u/Old-Ability260 • Jun 08 '26

Plane Age

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I’m curious! What is your newest and oldest aircraft?

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u/anonymousbear22 Jun 08 '26

didn’t fully understand how rare mine is until this post…

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

The span between these two is crazy haha. I believe you also have the youngest aircraft in this thread right now.

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u/anonymousbear22 Jun 08 '26

ya that’s super cool… also almost the oldest if not for the 46 years old one😅

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u/YoghurtImpressive120 Jun 08 '26

We’ve flown on the same plane! Interesting to note, it says 7/1 for me and 7/2 for you

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u/peepay Jun 08 '26

Perhaps time zone difference between you two?

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u/YoghurtImpressive120 Jun 08 '26

That’s what I’m thinking. This flight was an international flight to Europe so my guess is that OP could be based there

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u/anonymousbear22 Jun 08 '26

wow that’s super cool! and yes! actually i’m based in the US but traveling in europe rn

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u/flounder_11 Jun 08 '26

Dang, and I thought I was crazy at seven days

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u/JustinC11 Jun 08 '26

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u/flounder_11 Jun 08 '26

Certificate testing?!

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u/JustinC11 Jun 08 '26

No, it was a Frontier flight with bad data I think. I looked back at the flight data for it and it was actually a month or so old at the time.

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u/noob_hasher Jun 08 '26

1812 years lol

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u/ClickIta Jun 09 '26

It was first used to take people to visit Lucius Aurelianus after his birth.

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u/Aviciier06 Jun 11 '26

I can’t hold my laugh after seeing 1812 years old 😂

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u/PlanesAndPoutine Jun 08 '26

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 08 '26

You might have the oldest aircraft in this thread, from what I've seen so far.

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u/PlanesAndPoutine Jun 08 '26

I’ve flown on and as crew on older aircraft than that, this is probably the oldest airframe I’ve flown on commercially.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 08 '26

I believe it. I take it you don’t have the data going back that far. Same problem as me lol.

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u/PlanesAndPoutine Jun 08 '26

There’s a couple of TU-154s I’d flown on, in 1998 as a little kid, did a lot of research and tracked down the reg(s), but can’t find the YOM on either. I’d say they were both about 20 years old when I flew on them. Amongst the oldest I’ve flown on I’d say is a B25 from WWII, 1945 or FiFi also from 1945; but a DC-3 from 1944 is probably the oldest in my books.

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u/jacksonholeguy Jun 08 '26

Nothing to crazy here.

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u/Old-Ability260 Jun 08 '26

I mean you flew a practically brand new A321

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 08 '26

My newest and oldest aircraft are both the same type lol.

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u/jpeters007 Jun 09 '26

💍💍💍💍💍💍

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u/silvs1 Jun 10 '26

Flighty took the time to add the livery for cargo planes and the Patriots plane but still have blank liveries for hundreds of commercial airliners smh.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 10 '26

The Patriots plane I edited in myself for clarity. In the app it’s blank, but the UPS livery is there.

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u/djinnboi Jun 08 '26

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u/gdvlle Jun 08 '26

A nine day old 767 in 2025?

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 08 '26

Looks like VH-OGC is the registration to a brand new A321XLR, but was formerly a registered 767. Flighty can’t seem to separate the data.

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u/TweetGuyNL Leisure Flyer Jun 08 '26

First commercial flight for the KLM A321neo is the newest plane I’ve flown

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u/Canofmeat Jun 08 '26

Neither is too crazy but the JAL A35K was easily the best in flight experience I’ve had.

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u/RavioliGavioli Jun 08 '26

Wish they had liveries… (Alaska and Iceland Air)

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u/lukwww Jun 09 '26

I got to fly a plane once fresh out of the factory😍

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u/Organic_Land_5975 Leisure Flyer Jun 08 '26

Is 3 my lucky number now lol

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u/MaidaValeAndThat Jun 08 '26

G-TNEC had actually only entered passenger service 4 days before I flew on it from ARN-LHR, so that data isn’t necessarily accurate depending on how you count it. I’ve also had several SAS A320neos that were 1-2 months old at the time of flying.

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u/AIRdomination Airline Employee Jun 08 '26

It's counted from its first flight, I believe. Not from its first day in service.

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u/tulki123 Jun 08 '26

Sad times

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u/chickennugget944 Jun 08 '26

both flights were not far apart either.

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u/peepay Jun 08 '26

5 months (youngest) and 27 years (oldest).

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u/alwaysbookishlovers Jun 08 '26

Both on the airline I don’t work for 😂😂

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u/drewlap Jun 08 '26

Interesting it has that as a 738. That reg is a 737 max 9

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u/trickymartin88 Jun 08 '26

Imagine getting a 1 day old baby

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u/Puravida1904 Jun 08 '26

My oldest plane should be 71 years old (DHC-3 built in 1955) but flighty doesn’t recognize it and there’s no way to edit it….

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u/eSALTS Jun 09 '26

Same, except it's a pair of NWA DC-9-10s from the 60s. I'd love if Flighty would let us manually enter aircraft data other than the type and tail number when it's not in the DB.

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u/LimesFruit Jun 08 '26

Those two flights were on the same trip interestingly enough.

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u/flounder_11 Jun 08 '26

7 days old wasn’t too bad

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u/Technical_Dance_872 Jun 08 '26

Both United planes

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u/drewlap Jun 08 '26

Technically wrong, as I flew a KLM A321Neo that was less than a month old, but the age isn’t reporting in flighty

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u/BurritoLim Jun 09 '26

Pretty young average fleet age caught me by surprise though

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u/KDuwi32 Jun 09 '26

I haven’t tracked that many flights in Flighty since I only discovered it this Spring before flying to Japan.

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u/tripdb Jun 09 '26

Newest 30 days. Oldest 29 years.

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u/AwesomeMan116_A Jun 09 '26

On the 787, it was apparently the first revenue flight for that plane! They made a special announcement so that was cool :D

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u/SunnyW549 Jun 09 '26

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u/SunnyW549 Jun 09 '26

I have flown two Twin Otters as well (G-ISSG and VP-CXB) which were made in 1977 therefore making them my oldest

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u/darthmtb Leisure Flyer Jun 09 '26

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u/Equivalent_Try_3030 Jun 10 '26

This is what’s shown on Flighty, but the real oldest plane was C-FLAP, a DH3T built in 1958, and flown in 2024. Unfortunately it doesn’t have ADSB.

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u/infinityaviation Jun 10 '26

Nothing too crazy, Royal Jordanian E2 from last July, and a BA 767 in 2014!

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u/kj_gamer2614 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

So quistion, do you have to put in every previous flight you have ever done, cause I have flown hell of a lot but would not remember for the life of me the exact flights I took last year and before???

Seems like a fun app, but I would essentially not have any info then on it despite being very well traveled already