How many aircraft have you flown in - in your life time ??

[rogerk]

My list -
DeHavilland Rapide
Bell 47 Sioux
Westland Scout
Douglas DC3
DC 4M Argonaut
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
Lockheed Constellation
Airbus A380
Airbus A320
Vickers Viscount
Boeing 737
Boeing 747
Bell UH 1D
Cessna 172
Boeing 737 - 800
DH Beaver
Embraer 195

[rog747]

Bristol Britannia
707
727
720 and 720B
737
747 and 747SP
757
767
777
787
Martin 404 PBA
Tristar
DC-6 TTAS
DC-3
DC-8
DC-9
DC-10
MD-80
MD-11
CV990 Spantax
caravelle TAE Sterling Transeuropa
HP Herald
HS 748
Viscount
Vanguard
VC10
BAC 1-11
Trident
Sh 330 and 360
TU-134 aviogenex
Dash 7 Brymon
Dash 8 and Q400
ATR 42 and 72
Twin Otter fixed gear and sea plane
F27
F100 air europe
A300
A320
A319
A321
A340
A330
EMB Brasilia
EMB Bandeirante
EMB 145
EMB 190
Cessna Pilatus Caravan
SN-61 BCAL
Saab 340
Let 410
Cessna 404 Titan

Lancaster

[Bob Viking]

I have no idea until I start listing them:

Jaguar GR3
Jaguar T2
JaguarT4
Hawk T1
Hawk T2
Hawk 115
Hawk 165
Hawk 166
Tucano
Firefly 260
Chipmunk
Bulldog
Grob Tutor
Grob Viking
Alphajet
Gazelle
Puma
Merlin
Seaking
Blackhawk
Jetranger
Hercules
C17
VC10
Tristar
Falcon DA20
Boeing 737
Boeing 747
Boeing 757
Boeing 767
Boeing 777
Boeing 787
Airbus A320
Airbus A330
Airbus A340
Airbus A380
Bombardier something
Fokker something
Tupolev something (147 maybe?!)
Cessna 152
Piper Cherokee

That makes 41. Unless I’m forgetting one or some. Not too shabby.

BV

[treadigraph]

Boeing 727-100/200
Boeing 737-200/300/400/700/800
Boeing 747-100/200/400
Boeing 757-200
Boeing 767-200
Airbus A300
Airbus A319
Airbus A321
Airbus A340-300/600
Douglas DC-3
Douglas DC-8
MDD DC-10
Lockheed TriStar
BAC 1-11 200/500
Convair 440
Convair 990
Piper J-3 65 floatplane
Piper PA-22
Piper PA-28-140/180/181
Piper PA-32-300 Cherokee Six
Cessna 150/152
Cessna 172
Citabria
Auster
Bell 47
Sikorsky S-61N
Stinson SM-8
Waco UPF-7
Dragon Rapide
Blanik
Slingsby T-21
Schleicher K-13
Chipmunk
Rallye
Standard and Super VC-10
BAe 146-100/200
Probably a Beagle Pup as well...

[Pontius Navigator]

Puss Moth
Anson
Lancaster
Valletta
Varsity
Meteor
Dakota
Chipmunk
Hastings
Canberra
Vulcan 1&2
Victor 2
Shackleton
Dominie
Jetsteam
Phantom
Lightning
C54
C97
C130
C141
C5
Islander
BAC111
Trident
Viscount
VC10
Comet
Nimrod 1&2
E3 - A, NA and D
Iroquois
Whirlwind
Wessex​
S61
Britannia
727
737
747
767
777
787
A310
A320
SeaKing
TriStar
Coke
Crate
Coot
missed two
Bassett up hill and
Pembroke down hill so we could attend the summer ball at Waddington between Farnborough displays
50 - so many Airbus variants so not 340 or 380

Good brain exercise

[45989]

Sh!t loads of types but don't need to be here boasting about it

[WingNut60]

No Grummans yet?
Widgeon? Albatross?
Beech? B-N?
Antonov? Ilyushin?

[Bob Viking]

Your post is boasting in its purest form.

Oh, the irony.

BV

[jindabyne]

Fifty Six in all.

[A_Van]

As a crew member or as a pax?

[Tashengurt]

Slingsby T31
Slingsby T53
Grob Viking
Grob 109
Chipmunk
Wessex
Hercules
VC10
Tristar
Phantom
B757
B737

A modest list compared to those above.

[G-CPTN]

My proudest 'bag' is the DH Dragon Rapide.
When I was very young, we went to Blackpool, and my father and my two siblings went for a flight in a DH89.
My mother refused to go and refused to let her 'baby' go either.
Forward 65 years and I was at Duxford with my son - and they were giving rides in the 'aircraft that I never flew in'.
I bought two tickets without consulting my son - considering that he is a frequent flyer - however he was terrified throughout the trip - I have never asked why - maybe because it wasn't a proper airline? - or maybe because he was in next compartment to the bomb in the Kings Cross Underground at Russell Square on 7th July 2005 . . . (which left him physically unharmed but psychologically wounded)

However I achieved my ambition - after 65 years - of flying in 'the aircraft in which I had never flown'.

[rogerg]

Is this a willy waving completion ?

[VP959]

Probably an idea to clarify this a bit. I could list types from my logbooks when working, have another list of types from my gliding and private flying, another (very short) list from ATC air experience flights, and yet another list (which would be hopelessly inaccurate) from types where I've been a passenger as SLF (I've undoubtedly forgotten, or never noted, those).

So, do we just list types from work?

or do we include types from private flying or stuff like ATC air experience flying?

I'm not sure there's much point in trying to note types where one was SLF. How many people actually take much notice of what they happen to be riding in to get from one place to another?

[India Four Two]

Stick time on 44 types, P1 on 20 and innumerable passenger flights.

Some of the most exotic or memorable:
Dragon Rapide
Dominie - both kinds.
Queen's Flight Heron
Chipmunk
Tiger Moth
Bristol Britannia
Boeing 720
Boeing 747SP
Grumman Mallard (that's for you WingNut60)
Yak 40
Yak 42
Yak 52
Spitfire IXT
Vampire T.11
Beaver (turbo and round engine)
Twin Otter
Mil Mi-8
Aerospatiale Lama
Pilatus Porter
Augusta Bell 47G
Whirlwind 10
Varsity
Hercules
Standard Cirrus
Cirrus SR22

I've flown in almost all modern(ish) jets. Three I regret never having flown in are Concorde, VC-10 and BAC-111.
I realized a while ago, that of all the manufacturers, I have flown in DH products more than any other.

[DaveReidUK]

No Grummans yet?
Widgeon? Albatross?
Beech? B-N?
Antonov? Ilyushin?

I could add Goose, Islander and Il-18.

But why bother ?

Thread probably ought to be in Spectators Balcony.

[Dan_Brown]

The late Eric (winkle) Brown I believe holds the world record of 160+ types, IIRC.

I Can't see anyone coming even close to that, this day and age.

[paulc]

All bar 3 as SLF

Airbus A300/A310/A319/A320/A321/A330/A340A350/A380
Boeing 707/720/727/737/747/757/767/777/787
Canadair CRJ200/700/900 + CS300 (A220 now)
Fokker 50 + 100
Lockheed Tristar
BAC1-11
Beagle Pup
Christavia
DC9/DC10/MD11/ MD80/MD81/MD82/MD83/MD87/MD88/MD90
HS Trident + HS146
HP Herald
DHC7 / DHC8
VC10
TU134 . Tour group charted flight from Moscow to Ekaterinburg and return ra.67076 Primair
Tu154 of Balkan Bulgarian. Skiing trip Gatwick to Plovdiv.
DH Comet
Saab 340
Sweringen Metro
ATR72
Embraer 120 +135+145+ 190
Robinson R22 + R44
Sikorsky S61
Bell 47 + UH1
Antonov 2 At Popham
Grumman AA5
Grumman GA7
Cessna 172+C182
Rearwin Cloudster
Socata TB9
New Standard Biplane
DC3
Ford Trimotor
Jetstream 41
Boeing B17
North American B25

[Gertrude the Wombat]

As a crew member or as a pax?
Surely nobody keeps records of all the different types they've flown in as pax?

[paulc]

I do and so do a lot of enthusiasts - a number of UK airlines used to have a passenger log book for kids - British Caledonian had a Junior Jet club and i am sure BOAC / BEA had similar. It was another way of getting youngsters interested.

[Super VC-10]

DC3 x4
DH89A Dragon Rapide
Convair 440
BAC1-11 x2
Fokker 50 x4
Fokker 27 x2
BAe Jetstream 3102
BAe 146 x3
Fokker 100
DHC Dash 8

(all as pax :ok:)

[Tashengurt]

"Ooh, this is a fun game."

You'd Think.

[Ignore the HUD]

PAX of course........................
Avro York
Britannia
VC10
Hercules
Nimrod
Canberra
Wessex
Sea King
Chinook
Puma
T6 Texan
Huey UH1
DH Beaver
Cessna 172
Trident
Boeing 737
Boeing 747
Boeing 757
A320
A330
A340
BA146
Embraer 195
Space Shuttle Simulator Johnson Space Centre :-)

[Gertrude the Wombat]

I do and so do a lot of enthusiasts - a number of UK airlines used to have a passenger log book for kids - British Caledonian had a Junior Jet club and i am sure BOAC / BEA had similar. It was another way of getting youngsters interested.
Well, my passenger list would include (amongst who knows how may Boeings and Airbuses and commuter aircraft) some propeller-driven airliner for a schools exchange in around 1970, a helicopter which I and a few colleagues chartered to wind up the boss arriving at a company piss-up, a mate's Mooney, several Beavers, 'cos we get a ride in one of those whenever we can find one (on floats of course) (pleased to see others have already listed Beavers), and Aurigny's Trislanders.

In my log book? A small number of Cessnas and Pipers (of which Super Cub, C206 and C172 on floats). That I've flown but didn't put in my log book due to lack of legality? - Beaver (on floats of course).

[pzu]

Unfortunately apart from Piper TriPacer in which I had a couple of lessons, and Slinsby Cadet? Catterick about 1965, all have been as SLF (especially SL in the offshore helicopters)

First was a DH Rapide at RAF Usworth about 1950
then in no particular order
Canadair Argonaut
HP Hermes
Bristol Brittannia
Comet IV
VC 10 Standard & Super
Martiin 404
SE Caravelle
CV880
CV990
Vickers Viscount various marks
Vickers Vanguard
BAC 1-11
HS Trident
Boeing 707 & 720
Boeing 737 various mks
Boeing 747 SP, 100, 200 & 400
Boeing 757
Boeing 767
Boeing 777
DC3
DC8
DC9
DC10
MD11
Airbus A300
Airbus A320
Airbus A330
Airbus A340
Beech 1900
Aero Commander
DH Heron
Swearingen Metroliner
Let 410
Cessna 172
Cessna 206
Cessna 210
Cessna 402
Cessna Caravan
Piper twins at least a couple of models inc Aztec, Navajo & Seminole
Gulfstram G1
Short Skyvan
Short 330
Short 360
Tu 134
Tu 154
Yak 40
Antonov 24 & 26
Fokker F27, F28, F50 & F100
Avro 748,
HS ATP
BN Islander
BN Trilander
Twin Otter
BaE 146
Canadair CRJ200

Bell 47
Sud Alouette
Bell Jet Ranger
Bell 205
Bell212
Bell 214
Westland Whirlwind (turbine)
Westland Wessex (turbine)
Bo105 & 107
Aerospatiale SA330 & 332

AS SLF, a varied selection - the most interesting was the Bell 47 out of Badak in East Kalimantan, pilot was a Sikh ex Wing Commander Indian Air Force with a Magnificent Handle Bar Moustache (OK he was a Sikh)
Did get a few moments hands on in a Whirlwind out of Dubai, pilot was ex RN (allegedly with record for ditching RN Whirlwinds (piston) in a day; he'd just bought a Hasslebad and was trying it out taking pics of Mantas etc and asked me to 'steady things'!!!)
Suppose from a UK point of view the rarest was the Martin 404 out of Freeport Bahamas to Fort Lauderdale
Biggest regret being too tight to book a Concord flight though I did nick a 'Luggage Label' from a BA office (in Orkney!!!)

Missed out TriStar, Embraer 120, 130 & 140 & Jetstream 31 and 41

just been reminded L188 Electra (Eastern Out of Miami - under escort as no US visa), F-70, and fairly certain an Anson as well from Usworth

PZU - Out of Africa (Retired)

[renfrew]

One or two rare types-------
Martin 202
Tu104B
Grumman Mallard
Convair 440
Concorde(from Glasgow to Edinburgh!)

[dook]

We should change this thread.

How many have you flown which have A TRIGGER ?

I claim only four (and I know about you Mr Viking)

[IFMU]

The late Eric (winkle) Brown I believe holds the world record of 160+ types, IIRC.

I Can't see anyone coming even close to that, this day and age.
Barry's First 320 Aircraft (http://www.barryschiff.com/first300.htm)

[Geordie_Expat]

Am I the only one to have flown SLF in a Belfast (to Akrotiri 0500hrs 01 Jan 1975) ?

[renfrew]

I understood Eric Winkle Brown had 487 flown to his credit.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Concorde(from Glasgow to Edinburgh!)
As a boy I got shown round the Filton works and was IIRC allowed into one of the mock-ups but I wasn't allowed to touch 002.

[Trossie]

No Grummans yet?

Grumman AA1B. A great little aeroplane!

[dook]

My God - I'm so impressed with all this.

How many have you flown which have A TRIGGER gets not a single response.

[VP959]

My God - I'm so impressed with all this.

How many have you flown which have A TRIGGER gets not a single response.

Two types with a "600 lb special weapon box" sat by my left elbow for a couple of hundred hours or more of over-water trials flying. Does that count?

Oh, and one type for 50 hours or so with live "600 lb special weapons" loaded on the aft stations in the bomb bay (which, when doing trials armament loading line checks in the early hours at St Mawgan I wasn't allowed to turn around and look at, despite the nose of the damned things touching the back of my head as I was double checking the parachute lanyards and instrumentation connections on the trials torpedoes loaded on station 9).

[dook]

That counts for sure.

You sound like a useful pilot.

[treadigraph]

Who was that British guy who had flown as a passenger in hundreds of types and I think was a record holder. Edwin Clack?

[aerobelly]

Antonov?

Antonov AN2 - loggable
Aerostar (pre Piper)- not loggable
Flight Design CTSW - not loggable
Skyranger - not loggable
Schweizer 2-33 - loggable
and more usual stuff both powered and glider.

First as SLF was a Vickers Viscount from Wick to Glasgow via Inverness in crystal clear air. Second was Glasgow to Birmingham the same day in BAC 111 in increasingly bad rain and turbulence. I was used to being thrown around while navigating a rally car by then, but did not think that commercial aircraft could fly like that.


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[Trossie]

As pax:

DC3
DC4
DC9
B707
B727
B737
B747
B757
B777
B787
BAE ATP
BAE J32
BAE J41
BAE 146
SAAB 2000
ATR 72
A300
A310
A319/320/321 (all three)
A330
A380
Swearingen Metroliner
F27
F50
F70/F100 (both)
EMB 145
EMB 170/190 (both)
C130/L100 (both)
Avro Shackleton
Dash 8-300
Dash 8-400
Shorts 360
BN Islander
PA31 (I've decided not to list smaller than that, for now!)
Avro York (- well... I wasn't aware of it yet, but I was there!)

... and then I've flown a few myself.

[Trossie]

How many have you flown which have A TRIGGER ?
Only one:
Harvard

[DType]

Wot? No Bristol Freighters (car across the channel)?
Tiger Moth, Vampire, Meteor, Chipmunk, etc (ATC)
After that, all SLF flights over many years in many planes were pretty boring.
Thank y'all!.

[paulc]

Treadigraph - i think it was a Mr Edwin Shackleton

[Pontius Navigator]

Surely nobody keeps records of all the different types they've flown in as pax?
Hence memory recall. My remembering the BN Islander a single Logair flight was the last I added. Quite interesting experience and memorable in its own way, once I remembered.

Miss PN can also recall some memorable ones, a Jetstream, a rusty Crusty, and one from Khandahar where her companion was an explosives dog going to Cyprus for R&R. It spent the whole time with its head on her lap.

[cavortingcheetah]

Hell man, I can remember flying the Atlantic with propellers, via Gander to Shannon and into London and then back the other way. Then I discovered that you could go by ocean liner, you know, not the hapless cruise barges of toady but real ships, ones built for the Atlantic crossing in the middle of winter.

[treadigraph]

That's the chap, Paul C... Edwin Clack I now recall was something to with a flying club at Southend.

[cavortingcheetah]

Lockheed Constellation.
Bristol Britannia.
Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde.
Miles Messenger.
Persian Carpet.
De Havilland Tiger Moth.
Grumman Goose.
J31 Turbomeca Astazou,
Vickers Viscount.
A balloon.
DC3.

Many others of all weights and sizes too common place to mention, either as pilot or passenger, but not yet I regret to say the Boeing 787. I try to avoid ever flying on Airbus products and specifically the A319 at all, in any class.

[KelvinD]

I have flown as passenger in most of the above listed aircraft, plus a couple not listed so far:
Argosy from Aden to Francistown, a company King Air and Learjet while working in Saudi Arabia. (Owned by Lockheed). Until now, I have never tried the A380 or the 787. Here's hoping!
Most memorable: Whistling Tit from Aden to Francistown and the Manston based DC4 sent to bring us back from Francistown to Aden. Both were flying sheds!
Most scary: an ex Pan Am DC3 from Caticlan to Manila and the T21 at Leeming when the winch cable snapped at 400' on my second launch.
Smoothest: British Midland Viscount from Heathrow to Liverpool. Despite having my face glued to the patio window, I only realised we had landed when I noticed the tarmac and grass were not getting bigger!

[Tankertrashnav]

My proudest 'bag' is the DH Dragon Rapide.

Elsewhere recently I saw the question "What did you save your pocket money for?" In my case in 1957 I saved up ten bob for a flight in a Dragon Rapide at Prestwick. Ten minute flight (a long circuit) but I was like a dog with two tails and from then on all I wanted to do was fly. Eyesight let me down in the RAF and I had to make do with being a nav, but I did do a PPL aged 60 and my eyesight certainly hadn't improved!

Had a trip to Newquay with the family a few years back and there was a Dragon Rapide there doing pleasure flights. This time it was £75 not ten bob, and even allowing for inflation I reckoned that was a bit steep, so I gave it a miss!

[Art Smass]

Not a very long list compared to some...but gave me some happy memories recalling them!!

Vickers Viscount - BA
Beagle Pup
Boeing 707 - Wardair
Boeing 720 - Monarch
Boeing 727 - TAA, Aviogenex, JAT, Ansett
Boeing 737-200/300 - Air France, Ansett
Boeing 747-100/200/400 - BA, QANTAS
Boeing 757 - BA
Boeing 767-200/300 - QANTAS, Ansett
Airbus A300B2 - Air Inter
Airbus A320 - Ansett
HS.125-400
BAe.125-700
BAe.125-800
HS. Trident 2E/3B - BEA, BA
DH.89A Dragon Rapide
Bellanca Citabria
B.206B Jetranger
BAC 111 - BA
BAe.146-100 - Dan Air
Yak-42 - Air Ukraine

[tartare]

RAF Hawk
RNZAF MB339
RNZAF UH1H
Safeair Argosy
Pemex Bell 212
Hiller 360
USCG Dauphin
Hughes 500 C&D
Hughes 300
Robbie R22
Jetbanger
AS-350B2
EC-120
ex RNZAF Bell 47
RNZAF C130K
RNZAF P-3K
737-200, 400, 500, 800
747-200, 400
A380
A340
A320
A321
Bae 146
PA28
PA42
PA23
C152
C172
C206
C208
C421

[Nomad2]

As a pilot,
Chipmunk
Rallye Minerva...wel, my dad was flying it but I had a shot.
Slingsby T.31
Slingsby T.21 first solo aged 15!
K.7 it's a glider
K.8 another single seat glider
K.13
Slingsby Swallow
Cherokee 140
Cessna 310Q
Tiger moth
Cessna 150
Cessna 172
Cessna177
Aeronca 7AC
Super Cub
Airtourer
Shirts SD-360
Jetstream 41
Embraer 145
Avro RJ-85
Avro RJ-100
Embraer 170
Embraer 190.

Kinda more than I expected, but none with a trigger!

[rog747]

OH!
I forgot to add to my list above --- (that list was all my airliners both at work and pax)

Lancaster

(2014 Canadian Lanc, an hours flight from HUY - awesome)

[rog747]

I could add Goose, Islander and Il-18.

But why bother ?

Thread probably ought to be in Spectators Balcony.

lol but Dave then we would get all the avgeeks and spotty spotter teenagers showing off

[Bob Viking]

Of course it is! The OP asked a question and we answered.

If you don’t like it, don’t read it.

Now if he’d asked which aircraft you have piloted rather than just flown in, my list drops from 40 to 19.

I can feel my member shrinking.

BV

[WilliumMate]

It is the early flights that stick in the memory:

Ambassador, Caravelle, Viscount, Vanguard. HS748 on a charter from Teesside to Morlaix. Dan-Air Comet. CrabAir VC10 Brize to Sydney. BCal 707 Gatwick to Singapore which I think was one of those 'bent' charters, the smell of over a hundred people using Tiger Balm Oil for popping ears will stay forever in the nostrils. Lots of newer stuff but they hold little charm.

[megan]

Surely nobody keeps records of all the different types they've flown in as pax? Some do, as a spotty teenager I kept a school exercise book as my logbook, detailing crew, route, time and comments. Once when flying the line a similar book was passed to me in the cockpit with an adult, very much travelled pax, requesting I fill it out with similar details. In fact it was quite interesting flipping through it and seeing names I knew of folks from long ago, who they were flying for, and what they were flying.

[Krystal n chips]

Some do, as a spotty teenager I kept a school exercise book as my logbook, detailing crew, route, time and comments. Once when flying the line a similar book was passed to me in the cockpit with an adult, very much travelled pax, requesting I fill it out with similar details. In fact it was quite interesting flipping through it and seeing names I knew of folks from long ago, who they were flying for, and what they were flying.

That's nothing compared to some of the, ahem, rail" enthusiasts" .....carriage number, seat number, fwd, aft or sidewards seat, year of manufacture, operated routes, journey times and that's before they get to the locomotive details.......as witnessed and overheard very recently in fact.

However, patience is a virtue and now we have the perfect thread related opportunity for the revelation of some 42 types to be clarified.....or so we may think, because, the two posts so far on the subject have been remarkably devoid of this information but, not unsurprisingly, have offered complexity in response to a simple question plus the essential personal involvement . But, as we now know the log books are available, then it can only be a simplistic exercise to extract the information, and capacity ( hours would be a bonus of course ) to print on here.

As a lead in, a sort of "starter for ten " if you like, a list of the gliding types ( I pulled the cable release knob and operated the air brakes aside ) and the standard achieved would be of interest..

Flight Testing, may, of course, be covered by the Official Secrets Act.

[Tankertrashnav]

From Tartare's list

Robbie R22
Jetbanger
AS-350B2

That Jetbanger sounds like a scary aircraft Tartare. Have you got any info on it? ;)

[Ancient Mariner]

Out of necessity, most commercial types, props and jets since '69. Flying around China in the early 90'ies I had the "pleasure" of being SLF on IL86, some tri-motor Yak, Tu154 and a propeller thing with a glassy nose. Happy days.
Per

[Impress to inflate]

HS748
Trident 2-3
BAC1-11
Vicount
B747-200
B747-400
Tristar
Chipmunk
Cesna152
PA28
Slingsby Firefly
S300
Concorde
S61N
Belle 212
BAE146
DC10
DC9
Embraer 135
Embraer 170
Embraer 190
CJ90
Metro 23
Embraer 120
Boing 717
Boing 737-200-400-700-800
Boing 757
Boing 767
Boing 777
Boing 787
Airbus A320
Airbus A321
Airbus A330-200-300
Airbus A380
Dash 8-Q400
AS332L/L1
EC225
S92
Nimrod
S76
Focker 100
JetRanger
Beachcraft 1900
Saab 340
Beach Barron
Navaho
F27
F50
AS350B

As well as some small fixed wing that I have no idea what they were called

[NutLoose]

Flown in and had a go in quite a few of them

Wessex HC2 and HU5
Puma
Chinook
VC10
Herc
Jaguar T2
Fouga Magistair
Sia Machetti SF260
Robinson R44
Beech Baron B55PA
Koliber
Grumman Cougar
Socata TB10 and TB20
Cessna
150
152
172
177
182
210
310
421
441
Piper
PA- 28 various models
Seneca
Aztec
King Air
Boeing
737
727
757
Antonov AN2

probably a few more but i will need to think about those, claim to fame... Never ever paid for a flight in my whole life... yeah I know, I am cheap :E


Add Agusta 109 Grand

..

[k3k3]

DC3
Piper Aztec
Hunter T7
Viscount
VC10
Sea Devon
Sea Heron
Belfast
Beagle Basset
HS 125
Dominie
Shackleton
Pembroke
Varsity
Andover
Jet Provost 5
Jaguar T2
737
Nimrod
Westland Whirlwind
Dart Herald
C-130 K & E
DC 9
E-3A
707
747
UH-1
DC 3 Pinnochio
Sea King
Twin Otter on Floats
Dash 7
Dash 8
ATR
Grumman Tiger

I was not able to join up as aircrew, but I always tried to fly as much as possible.

[pulse1]

As Pilot (PIC or Pu/t)
T31
T21
Prefect
Swallow
Capstan
Blanik
Cranic
Olympia 2b
Olympia 463
Tiger Moth
PA28
C152/172
Stearman
Jet Provost
Condor

As passenger
Viscount
Britannia
Herald
Avro Lincoln
Fairchild Packet
Pembroke
Chipmunk
All Boeing jetliners except 787
All Airbus jetliners except 380
DC10
Tristar
Convair Coronado
AN24
AN2
Gyrocopter

[CoodaShooda]

C150
Two year gap
C150
C172
TriPacer
C182
Thorp T18
DH-82
Twenty year gap
C152
Ten year gap
Jabiru 230
Tecnam 2001
Texan 600
Antonov An2
CT4
C172
Five year gap with short breaks for stick time with a trigger in Hawk 127 and F/A18A.........simulators.

So, not many types with stick time but do I get brownie points for perserverence?

[tartare]

From Tartare's list



That Jetbanger sounds like a scary aircraft Tartare. Have you got any info on it? ;)
Aye Tash - also known as the Jetbox in the UK I believe?
It were back in the days when it was me job to make a fool of meself on the telly... instead of now just generally making a fool of meself.
That particular old B206 actually was scary.
Lots of inoperable stuff on the panel as we flew to a news job... I didn't have a good feeling about the pilot, who was very casual.
A few months later he took himself out - crashed in a pine forest.

[treadigraph]

Friend of mine always used to call Bell 206s Jetbangers in the UK.

[Captivep]

BAC 1-11
Boeing 717
Boeing 737
Boeing 747
Boeing 757
Boeing 767
Boeing 777
Boeing 787
Airbus A319
Airbus A320
Airbus A321
Airbus A300
Airbus A330
Airbus A340
Airbus A380
Lockheed Tristar
Twin Otter
Trislander
Jetstream 31
Jetstream 41
Saab 340
Saab 2000
Dash 7
Dash 8
Q400
Dornier 328
Dornier 328 J
Embraer 145
Embraer 170
Embraer 195
CRJ
ATR42
ATR72
MD-11
Robinson R44
Mil -8
Jetranger
C-150
C-152
C-172
Piper Tomahawk
Piper Warrior
Tiger Moth
S-61
Fokker 50
Fokker 70
BAE 146
BAE ATP
DC-9

[LowNSlow]

As pilot
Slingsby T31
Cesssna 150/2
Cessna 172
ARV-2
PA-28
Kittiwake 1
Extra 300
Airtourer 115
Grumman AA-5A/B
Harvard
Auster J1
Piper L4 Cub
Stearman
Tiger Moth
PA-32 Twin Commanche
Beech Duchess

As passenger
Boeing 707-720B-727-737-747-777
Airbus 319-320-321-340-380
DC-9-10
MD-11
L-1011
BAe-146
F-27
Cessna 401
Twin Otter
Embraer Bandeirante
Beech KingAir 90
Antonov 134
Mil-8
S-76
Bell 214
Robinson R-22

[Exrigger]

Britannia
VC10
Tristar
Boeing 747
Boeing 737
Airbus A320
Nimrod (quite a few)
Hercules (a couple)
Jet Provost (Several times)
Chipmunk (quite a few)
Glider (twice, no idea which type)
Chinook (lots and lots, all over the place)
Vulcan
Hunter
Cessna (don’t know which type)

Missed out on Lightning, Dutch F16B, and quite a few near misses at getting in a back seat of Tornado GR & F3.

[jindabyne]

Not 53 as previously posted, but 68. Here goes, not boasting or anorak-ing, just a little harmless memory wander. First batch were Capt/1stPilot/Hands-on. Twelve with triggers.

Chipmunk
JP3
JP4
JP5
Vampire T11
Gnat
Hunter F6
Hunter FGA 9
Hunter FR10
Hunter T7
Hunter T7a
Hunter T8
Hawk T1
Buccaneer S2B
Tornado GR1
Tornado GR4
Meteor T7
Phantom
Starfighter
Zlin 526
Cessna 172
Cessna Skyhawk
Avro 748
Firefly
DH Dove
BAe 146
Dominie
Jetstream
Beechcraft Baron
Twin Otter
Sea Prince
Twin Pioneer
Avro 748
Sioux

Anson
Hastings
Argosy
Britannia
Comet IV
VC 10
Hercules
Valetta
Varsity
Beverley
Saab 340
BAC 1-11
Viscount
Trident
Tristar
Focker F27
Bombardier Dash 8
Bombardier CRJ100
Shorts Skyvan
Wessex
Whirlwind
A319
A320
A321
A300
A330
A340
B707
B727
B737
B747 SP/200/400
B767
B777

[B2N2]

Probably 9-10 glider types and 25-30 piston and 3 jet of which two Boeing.
As in flown multiple times not just gotten a single ride in them during which I got to mess with the controls a bit. As in properly trained and certificated and type rates to fly them.
Yeah to me!

[BizJetJock]

56+ As pilot:
T21
T31
K7
K8
K13
K18
K21
Twin Astir
Astir
Vega
DuoDiscus
Chipmunk
Tiger Moth
Stampe
Pitts
Christen Eagle
Harvard
Bucker Jungmeister
Yak 40
Yak 42
Extra 300
T67
Auster
Rallye
C150
C152
C172
C182
C208
C210
PA18
TriPacer
Pa28
Pa38
Pa32
Various homebuilts and microlights whose designation escapes me, and I haven't got my paper log books with me
PA44
Apache
Aztec
Navajo
Travel Air
Baron
C310
C421
DA42
King Air 90
King Air 200
Piaggio Avanti
HS125 3B/400/700/800
Learjet45
C500/550
C525
C650
Challenger 600/601
Challenger 604/605/650

21 As pax - although I got to have an "unofficial" go at the controls of the BAC1-11 and A318:
Islander
Viscount
DC3
DC8
VC10
BAC1-11
B727
B737
B747
B757
B767
B777
B787
A318/319/320/321
A380
DHC-8
ATR42
ATR72
CS100
E170/190
CRJ200-1000

I'm sure there are more, that's just from memory!

[finfly1]

2 supersonic, the rest … Sikorski H-19 Taylorcraft* Martin 404
Piper J-3 Cub + Piper Super Cub* Piper Tri-Pacer* Piper Cherokee *
Piper Cherokee Six Piper Comanche Piper Twin Comanche PA-30*
Piper Apache Piper Archer Piper Tomohawk*
Piper Aztec Piper Navajo PA-31 Piper Warrier PA-28*
Piper Arrow PA28-200 Piper Seneca PA-34 DC-3
DC-8 DC-9 -15 DC9-31 DC-10
MD-80 md-82 md-11
bae-146 Provost jet mK 5* vc-10 [Jamaica] [27]
MD-88 DC9-30 Cessna c-150* C-152* C-172*
C-172K* (XP) c-177* C-177RG*
C-170 Aerobat c-180*
C-182 C-185 (Skywagon)floats C-206* Queenstown New Zealand
Turbo C-207 (floats) C-310 C-336*
C-337 Sweitzer Glider* C-414 [45]
C-172rg cutlass

Grumman American AA-1A* Grumman Cheetah* Grumman Tiger*
Grumman Goose Ercoupe* [50
Beechcraft Skipper* Beech Sundowner Beech Muskateer BE-23
Bonanza V-35 * BeechBonanza F-33 Beech Baron
Beech Sierra * Beech Press. Baron BE-58Beech 99 CV-580 [59] Boeing 707 B-727 B-737-300
B-737-400 B-747-200 B-747-300
B-747-400 B-757-300 B-767-200(er)
B-767-300(ER) B-777-200 B-737-700
B-757-231 B-737-500 B-717-200
B-737-800 [78]
B-777-222 AT-6 SNJ-5 P-51D
B-17G* B-24 C-45
B-25J = B-29 last one - MATS Constellation
DHC-1 (super chipmunk)* DHC-3 (Otter)floats dhc-5(Buffalo, static)
DHC-6 (twin otter) DHC-7 DHC-8 [89]
DHC-8-300 Airbus
A-300 A-319-131 A-321
A-319-112 A-320-214 A-320 eOW
A-310-300 A-330-200 A-330-300
A-340-300 A 340-600 [99] Convair ATR-42 ATR-72 (Bora Bora)
Caravelle Paris-London apr 3 66 Lockheed L-1011 BAC 1-11 LGA-Binghampton July 4, 1974
CV-580 Hawker Siddly 748 Eipper Ultralite
Mooney M20C* Mooney M 20 F Mooney 201
New Standard 1929 Schweitzer 235* Stinson
Waco YMF-5 Pitts s2b* Long ezF3H

Navion Rockwell Twin Commander Fairchild 227 [116] A Star A200 Bell 206 Robinson R-22*
Bell 47 MBB BK 117 MD902
Canadair Regional Jet (CRJ) Concorde SST English Electric Lightning*
RAF 2000 Gyro Robinson R44 [127] Banderante Fokker F-28 Fokker F-100
Shorts 360 Saab 340 ? Normandy Islander
Constellation C-121 Wilga 35A* AN-2 Antanov Biplane* [136]
Saab 430b Embraer 170 RJ CL-65
Embrarer E-190 CRJ-701 CRJ-200 [140]
Embrarer 175 Robinson R-44 (Aruba) Robinson R-66 turbine Colorado
Beech D-17S Staggerwing *

[Private jet]

This is just so intelligent and educational... this has to be the most informative, inspirational display of knowledge ever on Pprune. People fly on different types of aircraft... who knew?

[Fareastdriver]

How many aircraft have you flown in - in your life time ??

All the ones I have stepped out of.

One that I didn't but that had been flown by somebody else.

[Pontius Navigator]

This is just so intelligent and educational... this has to be the most informative, inspirational display of knowledge ever on Pprune. People fly on different types of aircraft... who knew?
jealous?

It shows that someone here has flown in every aircraft and can tell a tale about any one.

[tow1709]

Many of the usual suspects as SLF, and four or five trainers as P/UT or PIC, but I was surprised to see I have two that no-one else has mentioned: Dassault Mercure (Air Inter from Marseille to CDG in June 1993), and Ikarus C42B..

[dook]

….we would get all the avgeeks and spotty spotter teenagers showing off .

I thought we had nearly all the former already here, and possibly a few of the latter.

This must go down as the most silly thread I have read and how many of you dreamers are actual professional pilots ?

[Private jet]

jealous?

It shows that someone here has flown in every aircraft and can tell a tale about any one.

Now I know you really are a joker! You are being humorous, aren't you?

[Gertrude the Wombat]

how many of you dreamers are actual professional pilots ?
Some of us are, indeed, only amateur pilots. But we still fly things.

[Slow Biker]

I have never forgotten the thrill of my first flight, it was in a Chipmunk flown by a Flt Sgt. After some 60 years it remains my best flight ever. After that nothing to speak of really, plenty of civ and trooping, pretty boring although the Comet Singapore - UK and back was a revelation after UK - Singapore by Britannia. I do regret not taking up the offer of a trip in the T4 on my final Harrier field deployment.
Lady SB beats me hands down: Shackleton, Hastings, Argosy and a 1574Flt Meteor.

[Trossie]

This must go down as the most silly thread I have read and how many of you dreamers are actual professional pilots ?

'Silly' is sometimes very good fun!

And how dare you deny amateurs the chance of joining that fun!


It hasn't been said yet, but with tongue-in-cheek I have to say it:

Warning: aviation content!!!

[Helena Handbasket]

How sad for the poor old Beverley. Only Jindabyne wants to boast of flying in it. I was very fond of the old girl.

[cavortingcheetah]

Take advantage of the luxury of permitted prunian numerical superiority. Wander over to the cabin crew pages and start listing the number of flight attendants with whom you've flow united and just see how long you last.

[tartare]

Quite a few of the people here are pilots, some professional, some not.
Fascinating to see who's flown in what.
And nothing wrong with getting one's willy out from time to time - as long as it doesn't become a regular occurrence ;)
Personally, always regretted never getting a ride in Conkers...

[visibility3miles]

Partial list:
DC-3
Beech E-18
Pilatus Porter
Mooney 201
Luscombe 8
Stearman 75
Beech T-34
Beechcraft 35 Bonanza
Piper Tomahawk
Piper Warrior
Cessna 140
Cessna 150
Cesna 152
Cessna 172
Cessna 182

[MarkerInbound]

Ah the joy of an electronic logbook -
Citabria
Scout
Grumman AA-A5
AC-4
ASK-13 & -21
Boeing 727-200, 747-400 &747-8
Stearman AN75
Bellanca Viking
BA-3100
Beach 18, 33, 35, 36, 55 & 58
Bell 206
Brantly B-2
Cessna 120, 140, 150, 152, 172, 172RG, 175, 177RG, 180, 182, 206, 210, 305, 310, 402, 411 & 500
Convair 240, 340, 440, 600, 640 & LB30
CW-46
DC-3, 3S, 6 and 9
DH-82
Duo Discus
Grob 103
Hughes 269
IA-1123
Krosno 3
Scheinder LS4
Martin 404
Mooney 20A
Piper J3. 23, 24, 25, 28, 30, 31 & 34
Pitts S2A
Robinson 22
Stemme S 10
Schweitzer 1-26, 1-34, 2-32 & 2-33
Skyship 600
Swearingen SW-4
PW 5 & 50
Slingsby T21
Republic Twin Bee

What I've ridden in would include
L-188
DC-8, 10 &MD11
Boeing 707, 737, 747-100, 757, 767, 777 & 787
Airbus 320 series, 330, 380
Lear 20 series
Saab 340
CV 580
and a whole bunch of regional jets

[treadigraph]

Ooops, left the VC-10 off my list, how could I have done that!

[ChrisVJ]

Odd. I thought I probably have flown in about ten or fifteen aircraft types, then I started adding them up and I keep getting reminded of an odd one here or there. Flights I don't think of often. Going through the lists here reminded me of a few more. There were quite a few passenger flights in the seventies or eighties I can't remember the aircraft at all. Sacrilege!

Searey
Auster
Dragon Rapide
Chipmunk
Colt
Tripacer
Beagle Airedale
Auster Terrier
Cessna 150
Cessna 172
Varsity
Slingsby Tutor
Brantly Helicopter
Dragon DH84
Piper Comanche
Blanik
Fournier RF6, RF4
Cherokee
707, 737, 747,
A319, A320, A340,
Cormorant Helicopter
Buffalo
Jetranger
B25 Mitchell
Dash 8
Bombardier Q400
Bell 206
Airbus EC120
Airbus H125 (Squirrel)

[Exrigger]

Don't forget, for the groundcrew it was quite an achievement to get to fly in some aircraft, Vulcan and Hunter in my case, some like Nimrod and Chinook it is part of deploying and maintaining (Chinook rotor tuning), it is also interesting, for some, to see the diverse types and quantity that some have managed.

[Krystal n chips]

Not mentioned so far, these examples of how a brick could overcome gravity....I should add there have been other more amiable types.
Ka4
Bocian
Skylark
Pirat
Dart


The awaited compilation is clearly a work in progress it seems.......

[Pontius Navigator]

As I said earlier, good brain exercise,and like others, just looking served to remind me of odd one-off flights. I then remember where and when I flew each and could bore for England, but I won't any more than I have already. I guess you could have associated threads in the nostalgia thread - military bases visited, aircraft navigated (single seat pilots on a winner here) etc.

[longer ron]

Memory test :)
P1 Gliders (in roughly chronological order)
T31 - 644 Spitalgate,613 Halton
T21 - '' ''
Prefect - 613 Halton
Ka 7 - Sutton Bank,various sites
Bocian - Perkins GC, John Banks Farm, Crowland
Ka 4 - Brawdy
Blanket - Gwelo,Zimbabwe
Swallow,Skylark 3b - Gwelo
Fokker Goevier - Gwelo
Bergie 2/3/4 at various sites
Ka8,K13,Ka7/13 (sometimes erroneously referred to as K10) - Old Sarum,Tibenham and various other sites.
Grub 103 twin acro
Libelle 201b (mine all mine !) at various sites
Puchaz - various sites
K21 - various sites
Yorkshire Sailplanes YS53 (penultimate Slingsby T53c) - half share LOL
Last P1 flight 1996 (blimey)

Power P1
C 150
Grub 109

Power Pax
Auster Autocart,Mk4/5
Chippie (lots of flying both as a cadet and later whilst groundcrew)
Bulldog (whilst groundcrew)
Boeing Stearman :)
Argosy E1
Canberra T4 (thanks Dusty M)
Lancaster (thanks Jacko) - 2h 20 of heaven - Abingdon to Colt inc 3 displays in BA 'seat'
Hawk T1 (lots) ,Hawk T60 (Zimbabwe)

'Classic' Airliners
Viscount
707,DC8

I am sure there are a few I have forgotten

[aerobat77]

Surely nobody keeps records of all the different types they've flown in as pax?

surely no pilot in this world was ever rated in over 60 types , western style as well russian types and also helicopters . so of course as a pax in this thread

[Bob Viking]

It’s been mentioned before but here you go:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_(pilot)

BV

[zzuf]

surely no pilot in this world was ever rated in over 60 types , western style as well russian types and also helicopters . so of course as a pax in this thread

Well, I have flown a lot of types, only including LHS or command seat (no RHS or SLF included) it is about 210 types - in reality somewhat more but I can't find my post 1988 log books.
As far as ratings, this rating on my ATPL helped: "Any aeroplane during the conduct of performance test flights duties authorised by ......"
But, in reality I was never an "enthusiast" this stuff just sort of happened after joining the RAAF at age 18 - like lots of things in life.

[bnt]

My SLF list is fairly modest:

Trident 3B
Boeing 747SP (SAA)
Beech King Air
Boeing 737-200
Airbus A300
Transall C-160 (SAAF)
Douglas DC-4 (SAAF)
Cessna 172
Glider - unpowered, didn't get the make & model
Boeing 747-200, 757, 767, 777.
Airbus A320, A330, A380
Boeing 737-400, -800
Embraer 170, 180
Bombardier Dash 8
BAe 146

[rogerg]

Anyone else flown the NA Sabreliner?

[FullOppositeRudder]

I hesitate to join in here, but it is Jet Blast, and this topic triggered an interesting exercise in recalling the different aircraft I've been fortunate to experience over 60+ years. I won't list them - there's nothing very special. I came up with 20 different glider types - all of which I flew - some for many hours and kilometres. As passenger on commercial flights, and also with friends who generously offered me a flight or two, I came up with somewhere around 30+ different powered types - just a few of which I was granted freedom at the controls for a while. The last figure includes 2 trips in rotary wings - both memorable for different reasons.

Life has been good. One hundred years earlier, the magic of flight remained something of a dream for the average person. One hundred years into the future? Who can say; but I was on this earth at a time when all of this was possible, and I've been so very privileged to be part of it - even in a small way.

FOR

[Pontius Navigator]

FOR, indeed, when in the past going from one continent to another was a life changing, and permanent experience. Today we peasant class can hope around the World as we wish with much less discomfort than our forebears.

[eal401]

This is just so intelligent and educational... this has to be the most informative, inspirational display of knowledge ever on Pprune. People fly on different types of aircraft... who knew?

You know, if a thread doesn't interest you, you can scroll past....

Or you can show yourself to be a dick and comment in the manner you have.

[dook]

Mrs. dook can claim Lancaster, Phantom and Jaguar. :)

[Fitter2]

I'm tempted to join the willy-waving contest. At the last count a few years ago, I had over 90 distinct glider types, and just under 40 power types in which I had been pilot handling during at least one take off and landing. I didn't keep any record of how many assorted DeHavilland, Douglas, Lockheed, Boeing, Airbus etc. types, plus other light aircraft where I have been a passenger, although they include a trip on a single pilot operated charter C46 (Curtis Commando) on which I was welcomed into the right hand seat to hold the throttles open during the take off roll, and allowed to hand fly down the West coast of Malaysia at 1.500 ft for an hour, and also a memorable hour in a Lightning T4 (also with a little handling permitted)..

[ImageGear]

A modest list by all accounts but fun trying to remember:

DH Chipmunk P2
HS Andover Pax
HS Hastings C3 Pax
Slingsby T21/31 P1/P2
K3/K7/K8/K13 P1/P2
Blanik P2
Bristol Brittania Pax - Brief Hands On
HS Argosy Pax/Sim - Live Para-Drop
Shorts Belfast Pax - Brief Hands On
LH C130K Pax

Fokker Friendship Pax
Vickers Viscount Pax

A300 Pax/Sim
A310 Pax/Sim
A319 Pax
A320 Pax/Sim
A321 Pax
A340 Pax
A380 Pax

B707 Pax
B727 Pax
B737 Pax
B747 100/200/300/400/SP Pax/Sim
B757 Pax
B767 Pax
B777 Pax
B789 Pax

BN Islander Pax
BN Tri-Lander Pax
DHC Twin Otter Pax
Mitsubishi MU-2 Pax
ATR42 Pax
ATR72 Pax
BAe 146/RJ85

DC-9 Pax
DC-10 Pax
MD-11 Pax
Tristar Pax

Piper J3 Cub P2
PA 28 P1/P2
Piper Archer P1/P2
Piper Arrow P1/P2
Piper Warrior P1/P2
Piper Aztec P2
Piper Navaho Pax

C150/ Aerobat Pax
C172 Pax

Interestingly, never had the opportunity to try out in a helicopter, I know how they fly, but I still think they are so ugly the earth repels them..

IG

[Groundgripper]

examples of how a brick could overcome gravity
of which prime examples must also include Slingsby T42 Eagle - aka the mahogany bomber - and the Grunau Baby (with original german beer advert on upper wing surface which, luckily, no-one ever viewed from the ground)

PZL W-3 Sokol, anyone?

hop around the World as we wish with much less discomfort than our forebears.
Nowadays the discomfort has been transferred from the air to the airports.

GG

[NXDriver]

All as pax:
Britannia 737-200
Orion 737 200/300
Dan Air 727
Monarch 757
Britannia 767
Thomson/TUI 737-800
BA Concorde
C172
Chipmunk
Next week will be able to TUI 787 to that list. A bit sparse but there you go...

[jindabyne]

Helena Handbasket

How sad for the poor old Beverley. Only Jindabyne wants to boast of flying in it. I was very fond of the old girl.

Aah yes, remember it well. Aden to Nairobi with an 8 Sqn mate. Two weeks R&R, then RtB on the old girl. The Elsan in the boom sticks in my mind - as it did elsewhere!

[flash8]

Huge number of TU-154's (at least 500 flights maybe more) 1998 - up until around 2010, variety of CIS/Russian carriers usually "M" a very few were B-2 however, once a Russian Government transport ("M").

TU-134 (50 odd times) mostly to and from Kaliningrad from Moscow some years back, hated how cramped they were (the Windows are deceptive).

The odd AN-24 (within Uzbekistan usually Tashkent-Samarkand)

IL-96 (twice).

BAe-146 during my Canada days quite a bit.

And the usual Boeing stuff. Nowadays usually 737's (CL/NG) with the odd 757/767.
I have never been on an Airbus in my life (except the Sim), not through conscious avoidance, can't think of a particular reason though, it does seem odd now I think of it.

Likely because most Russian carriers favour Boeing heavily, or at least used to perhaps.

[gingernut]

4, 5 if you include a Harley paraglider.

[edi_local]

Really don't see the issue with this thread. Actually quite surprised at the hostility, is jetblast not full of much worse things you can all moan about?

Anyway, just to annoy, here is my list.

Boeing 717, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, 787
Airbus A319, 320, 321, 330, 340, 350, 380
DC 10
MD 11, 80
Avro RJ100
Fokker 50, 70, 100
Bell Jetranger
BN Islander
DHC 3 - Otter (seaplane variant), 6 - Twin Otter, Dash 8
Embraer 140, 170, 190
ATR 42, 72
Hot air Balloon (specific type unknown)
CRJ 200, 900
SAAB 340
Piper Navajo
Taifun 17E
Tupolev 204
Antonov 158

[tartare]

...this thread is prompting more types to surface - and some happy memories.
Jetstream (thanks RI, thorn in the side of Air Nelson).
ATR-72
F-27 (nice view from under that high wing)
Q-400 - likewise.
Bandierante.
Beach 1900D.- the forehead.
And who could forget the flying pencil - The Metroliner.
Even after I'd got my PPL being SLF in that thing used to scare the **** out of me.
Not enough wing - and it just seemed too fast for itself - an accident waiting to happen.
Maybe it was the tiny cabin.
Even as SLF it was good on the smaller types to be able to lean out into the aisle and see parts of the instrument panel between the pilots.
And watch through the windshield as many a sky-god overshot the extended centreline when turning from base onto finals, particularly on a really windy day at WLG.
Apologies for annoyance caused - willy now back in trousers.

[Ancient Mariner]

I've skimmed through and am surprised that no one has mentioned my all time favourite, the Let 410. Thousands were made so surely I'm not the only one here?
Used to fly on them with SeAir around the Philippines.
Per

[SMT Member]

The jets
A300/310/319/320/321/330 (all versions)/340-300/380
B717/720/727 (all versions)/737 (all versions except -900 and MAX)/747 (all versions except -100)/757-200/767-300/777 (all versions)/787-8
C500
CRJ200/900/1000
Concorde
DA2000
DC-8/-9/-10
EMB145/170/190
F70/100
G450
TU154

The turboprops
ATR42/72
CV580
DHC200/300/400
EMB120
F27/50
HS748
SW Metro
SH7 (the mighty Skyvan!)

The bugsmashers
Beech Baron
Boeing Stearman
C172/182
DC-3/-7
Mooney
PA28
SR22

The gliders
Twin Astir
LS4
Duo Discus

The whirlybirds
A109
AS355
Bell 206
H500
S-76

[Nige321]

Not mentioned so far, these examples of how a brick could overcome gravity....I should add there have been other more amiable types.
Ka4
Bocian
Skylark
Pirat
Dart


The awaited compilation is clearly a work in progress it seems.......

Very subtle...

[Tankertrashnav]

How sad for the poor old Beverley.

I shared a room with a Beverley captain at Seletar and often went flying with him. Great fun watching one ton containers getting shoved out the back over the jungle. In my memory the pilots' seats seemed like comfy chairs, and I remember the nose wheel steering which was pulled up out of the floor and operated like a tiller.

[rog747]

I've skimmed through and am surprised that no one has mentioned my all time favourite, the Let 410. Thousands were made so surely I'm not the only one here?
Used to fly on them with SeAir around the Philippines.
Per

ah Yes AM -
in my list at the very start of this thread I was racking my brains for any other types I had flown on and you reminded me of going on an air kenya? or was it Precision air Let 410 from MBA to Zanzibar about 14-15 years ago - there had been a few crashed of this type around then so I was not too keen but it was OK....I returned direct to NBO on a kenya AW Saab 340 equally nasty lol but had the most amazing views of Mt Kilimanjaro on the way in

[RedDragonFlyer]

Wow! Some very impressive lists here.
My list, as SLF, is very short in comparison.

Airbus A320 (19/20/21)
Airbus A330 (-200/-300)
Airbus A350 (-900)
Airbus A380
Boeing 737 (-300/-400/-500/-800/-900)
Boeing 747 (-400)
Boeing 757 (-200)
Boeing 777 (-200/-300)
Boeing 787 (-8/-9)
Embraer E175 / E190 / E195
Fokker 70
Bombardier Q400
Avro RJ100

[HarleyD]

Wow, what a willie waving event, good thing this is the Professional Pilot’ Rumour Network, as we are clearly all ‘proper’pilots, so.....

PIC

107 FW

6 RW

7 unpowered

9 micro/LSA

7 para static line

1 delayed opening

2 emergency para, both delayed opening due Prox

4 stabilisation para deployment,
Two worked, for other two, see above... phew......

AND, I fly on commercial (airliners) A LOT, LOTS AND LOTS..... many, but I just sit and drink fizzy wine chat with the hosties ( auto correct changed Hosties, to Hotties, ha ha ha,, haD to change it back, cos QANTAS quite a lot, lovely girls, but weeell, anyway) often with a flight crew that I trained, or soloed a long time ago. But!! That doe#nt really count an$ I made a decision in my teens that pax was BS, supernumerary counted (hence the entomology of the word), but paxing was for spotters.

paxed on MIL often enough also, but it is no5hing like actually driving the crate, which is on the PIC list, as applicable.

i have also SEEN, heaps and heaps of planes, and talked to the people, usually VERY rich people, that own them. It’s nice but unless I get to fly it, ho hum. And on occasions they gave me a few laps, out of pity clearly.

so ..... pax list pfsttt doesn’t count cos you are a punter, driver time is good, trigger good, old heaven metal great but, jaysus, ya gotta work for it these days.....

Never been in or on a balloon, thank fcuk, oh yeah, also a Rogallo self launched hang glider, still got those scars also.

have friends and colleagues that are ‘Astro’ qual, but I’ve only flown the sim, so no credits there.

PIC Flight time hands on, no AFCS, single Pilot in 5 figures, no first second, or even 3rd officers, or George time, all approaches hand flown, alone. I have personally hand flown about 30,000 approaches and landings, or more.
Am short by 4 landings to takeoffs, rode two in two were, plan B.

SLF is a wnak, get real, I been on lots of trains, in many countries, but I don’t post on the Prof Train Drivers Network, if the have one, which they prolly do, and claim credit for sitting upstairs in an AMTRAK cafe car, sipping rat’s p!ss Bud light, as train driver experience. Helloooooo.....

if if you gonna stand tall and straight in the bright light Of day in this forum, expect incoming, accurate incoming.

makes me think that all that other stuff that SLF post on here, with great authority, is also all just BS and dog whistling 😙

some laps in a 150, or a Grumman tiger, 20 years ago followed by 20 or 30 commercial trip down the back don’t cut it.

Now or where is that Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, all gone you say, how is that possible?

HD

[Allan Lupton]

Wow! Some very impressive lists here.
My list, as SLF, is very short in comparison.
Same here, but this is mine in approx. chronological order from 1946 (i.e. as geriatric memory retrieves the data!)
de Havilland Rapide
Vickers Viking
Bristol Freighter
Trident 1
Ilyushin 18
Caravelle*
Comet 4B
DH Heron
B727
B737*
DC10
VC10
B707*
B747*
L1011
L1011-500
Fokker F27
Fokker F28
Avro 748
BAe 146
DC9*
A300B
A320
A319
DH/HS 125
Bandeirante
Jetstream 100

* In several cases (e.g. Caravelle) there were many versions but I did not note them.

[NorthernChappie]

As a slight thread drift on aircraft not flown on, shortly after (a couple of months) the present Mrs NC and I got together, Mrs NC who then was responsible for a lot of corporate travel bookings for her employer was asked by her travel agent (no on-line booking in the 1980's) to go on a jolly to London for a couple of days. Said jolly included a Concord experience flight from Heathrow. The present Mrs NC declined as she didn't want to leave me for a couple of days. Mrs NC now regrets that decision.

[longer ron]

How sad for the poor old Beverley. Only Jindabyne wants to boast of flying in it. I was very fond of the old girl.
Purely coincidentally we visited Fort Paull near Hull a couple of days ago to see Beverley XB259 which they have on display.

What an amazing survivor :) - flown into Paull Airfield on retirement,dismantled and moved to the Pongo Transport Museum at Beverley and then some years later - dismantled again (no easy task even just owing to component size) and transported to Fort Paull,Hull.
She looks to be in fairly reasonable shape for having been on outdoor display for the last 44 years and thus far seems to have led a charmed life,let us hope she survives long into the future.

https://i.imgur.com/ZyXkK99.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/OP9wPdh.jpg

[er340790]

34 types as pilot and SLF, all previously listed herein.

I shall see you all. And raise...:

MARTIN MARS

[malcolm380]

Auster J/1
Chipmunk
Comet
BAC 1-11
Viscount
HS748
HS125
DH Dove
PA-28 140/180*
MS Rallye*
Beagle Pup*
PA-23 Apache
Dornier DO-27
Westland Whirlwind (helo)
Boeing 707
Boeing 727-200
HS Trident
Airbus A300
Boeing 757-200
Lockheed L-1011
Airbus A310
Boeing 747-200
Boeing 747-400
Boeing 767-200
Boeing 767-300
Boeing 767-400
Airbus A321
Airbus A320
Airbus A319
Airbus A318
Airbus A330
Slingsby Firefly
Boeing 737-200
Boeing 737-400
Boeing 737-900
SAAB 340
SAAB 2000
BAe 146/RJ85
EMB-135
EMB-145
EMB-175
EMB-195
Jetstream
DC9-30
MD80/82
MD-11
Boeing 777
Boeing 787
Lear 45
Citation
Beech Baron
Cessna 150*
Cessna 172*
Westland Sea King**
Westland Lynx**
SA/Westland Puma**
SA/Westland Gazelle**
Westland Wasp**
DH89 Dragon Rapide
DHC-7
DHC-8
CL-600
CL-900

* as pilot ** as FTE. My Dragon Rapide was also one of the Duxford ones a few years back; my son and I just fancied spending 40 quid on something you don't do every day.

[Mr Mac]

Please see below all flown as SLF from 10/9/60 to yesterday with carriers or at least ones I can remember :-
Props
DC4/5 - Airlines - south American / British charters
Ambassador - UK Charters
Constellation - PIA I think
Vanguard - BEA
Viscount - Channel Airways / BA
Britannia - British Eagle
Dash7/8 - Air Kenya
F27 - KLM / Air UK / Air Anglia
BA-ATP - BMI
ATR - Air Lingus
Caravans - Bush flying in Africa
DC3 - not sure I was too young
Hercules - RAF
Short Skyvan - Can not remember carrier but used to fly EDI-LBA
King Air

Jets
BAC 1-11 - Court Line/ BEA
HS125
BA 146 - Air Lingus
Tridents - BEA and Chinese airline
VC10 - BOAC and East African
Comet - BEA/ Air tours
CRJ - LH
DC 9/8/10 - Many KLM/TWA/Delta/American/SAS/Swissair/CP/Iberia
MD11 - LH
Boeing 720/707/727/737/747/777/787 - ANA/JAL/BA/BOAC/BCAL/LH/EK/AF/MONARCH/SQ/CP/CATHAY/ AC/PAN AM /KLM/Continental/ AF/ Malaysian/ TWA/ AI and many others as well which I have forgotten, though keep remembering as I type !
Convair Coronado - Swissair / Spantex
Airbus 300/310/319/320/330/340/380 - Same as Boeing list, with same caveat at the end.
L1011 / Tristar - TWA/ BA
Gulfstream
Lear Jet
Caravelle - Swiss Air / AF

Helicopters
Huey - US Army
Squirrel
Jet Ranger

Some how this does not seem such a long list given the years I have been flying, though like others have already said, I also never got on Concorde. I never retained a precise record apart from old paper diary notes, and of course FF logs when they came in.
Kind regards
Mr Mac

[spittingimage]

TBH I have not kept records of types flown when SLF, but I guess it would be around 25 or so. Nerdily, I would deliberately seek out slower prop-types, given a choice.. So DC3, Britannia, Herald, Viscount, Ambassador, F27, Islander, Trislander and, one I cannot see already mentioned, the Nord 262 (DanAir). All increasingly difficult to find these days, if not wholly withdrawn. Types flown P1 probably number about 20 (SEP and MEP) and all have been mentioned previously already, so no rarities. Minor regrets that I never flew in the Jetstream or Heron. Beautiful aircraft !

[tartare]

A few people have posted Russian types.
Interested to hear how that happened - domestic travel within the USSR or post Soviet Russia?
Anyone flown as pax/observer on any Russian military kit?

[India Four Two]

tartare,

My flights in a Yak-40 and Yak-42 were in consecutive years, immediately after the breakup of the USSR.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/640x426/kapo_yakovlev_yak_40_ryabtsev_adad7c71e67b8ea8af391abd28f0f2 3ac7d734e7.jpg

My first flight in the Yak-40 was from Usinsk to Ukhta in the Komi Republic in Arctic Russia, after arriving in Usinsk in a Canadian 727. I was part of a group going to visit a Canadian-British-Russian Oil Joint Venture. I remember being somewhat taken aback on arrival at Ukhta when the first time I saw the ground was over the threshold! There was no ILS so I assume we did a GCA.

At the end of our two-week trip, we were ferried to Moscow in another Yak-40, but this was a VIP version with plush seats, some couches and a fake wood interior. It was the personal aircraft of the chairman of the JV's Russian partner. One of our group had a NatGeo map of the USSR. The pilots were intrigued and asked to see it. They told us, through our translator, that they had never seen a map like this!

The following year, on a visit to another oil company, we flew from Moscow to Saratov on the Volga River, in an Aeroflot Yak-42 ( a Tridentski?).
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/640x426/aeroflot_yakovlev_yak_42_volpati_fc89a6685c9d9cfe53a3de834ae e0108ec47a08a.jpg

I was quite taken aback when most of the passengers carried all their luggage on board. Suitcases were stacked in the aisles!

Our return journey was quite unpleasant. My seat mate was a large man, stinking of Vodka, who kept falling asleep, with his head on my shoulder. I kept pushing him off, to avoid him slobbering on me!

During our stay in Saratov, we were ferried by an Aeroflot Mi-18 to visit an oilfield.
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/640x423/screen_shot_2018_08_15_at_20_56_31_65880aec37d1ec08a9765a3da bc31851f3dc416c.png

Two things about this flight stick in my memory. One was how we were nearly blown over by the downwash as it came in to land to pick us up - 13 tonnes maximum AUW. The second was sitting sideways in foldable seats, looking at each other, across a large auxiliary fuel tank in the centre of the cabin!

[tartare]

Great yarns I42.
The Mil-8 - love it.
Russia's UH-1 - sort of...

[eal401]

A few people have posted Russian types.
Interested to hear how that happened - domestic travel within the USSR or post Soviet Russia?
Anyone flown as pax/observer on any Russian military kit?

I have flown (as pax) on three Russian types, Yak-40, Tu-154 and An-24.

The Yak-40 and a couple of instances of the Tu-154 were work trips, another Tu-154 and the An-24 were personal trips.

[Fitter2]

Sorry (ish) for the length of post below. Happy evening going through my logbooks, 1960-2018, flown between 129 and 157 types depending on what makes a different type (are a J-3 Cub and a Super Cub 180 the same type, etc). Add the SLF types I can remember, then between 171 and 198.

Single seat gliders
EoN Primary
Tutor
Grunau Baby 2&3
Reinhardt Cumulus
Prefect
Kite 1
Swallow
Olympia 2
EoN 401
EoN 403
EoN 419
EoN 463
EoN 465
SF26
SF27
Zugvogel3
Weihe
BG135
Ka6CR & Ka6E
MD1
Javelot & Super Javelot
M-100S
Ka 8
ASK14
ASW15
ASK18
ASW19
ASW20
ASW28
Skylark 2
Skylark 3b & 3F
Skylark 4
Dart 15, 15W & 17R
Kestrel 19
Vega and Sport Vega
Phoebus A, B & C
Std Austria
SHK
Open Cirrus
Std Cirrus
Nimbus 2, 2B & 2C
Discus
Ventus B & CT
Ventus 2C and CxT
Nimbus 3 & 3T
Nimbus 4
Diamant 16.5 & 18
Pirat
Foka 4
Cobra
Jantar
Libelle 201
Hornet
Mosquito
HPH304J
LS4
LS6
LS7
LS8
Astir CS
DG300
Grob102
PW5
JS1

2 seat gliders
T31
T21 (including T46, a.k.a. T21C)
Kranich
Blanik
Capstan
Doppelraab
Go-4
Ka 2
Ka 4
Ka 7
ASK13
ASK16
Bocian B & E
Bergfalke 2 & 3
T53
Castel C25S
Schweizer 2-32
Janus C
Puchatz
Twin Astir & Acro
Nimbus 3DT & DM
Nimbus 4DM
ASH25
DG1000
Duo Discus
ASK21
EB28
Arcus T

Power
Chipmunk & 'Supermunk'
Provost
Cub J3, C-90, Super Cub 150 & 180
Citabria
Pawnee
Beagle Pup 100 & 150
RF4
RF5
Tiger Moth
Jackaroo
Auster 6, AOP9, & Beagle Terrier
Beaver
Turbo Porter
Motorfalke
Slingsby T61
Tandem Falke
C 152
C 172
Cherokee 6
Bolkow Junior
Turbulent
Condor
Europa
Stemme S4

Passenger types that I can remember - (with some exceptions they were aluminium tubes with seating, so there may have been others)
Dragon Rapide
Anson
Curtis Commando
Hastings
Beverley
Lincoln
Shackleton
Comet 4
Argosy
Bristol Freighter
Britannia
Varsity
Valetta
DC3
DC6
DC7
DC8
DC9
DC10
727
737
747
757
767
777
A319/320
A340
Twin Otter
Tristar
F27
Dart Herald
Dash 8
Lightning T4 (That I definitely remember)

SLF Rotary
Scout
Belvedere
Whirlwind
AS355
AS365
Jet Ranger
Hughes 300

[Grayfly]

As P1 or Pu/t

Cessna 150
Cessna 152
Cessna 172
Piper PA28
Piper J3 Cub
Piper L4 Grasshopper
Piper Super Cub
Yak11
Tiger Moth
Harvard
DH Chipmunk
Beech Staggerwing
DH87B Hornet Moth

Jammed in back seat or crew seat
P51 Mustang
Curtiss Kittyhawk
B25 Mitchell
DH Rapide

Commercial Airline
No idea, but my first flight from Glasgow to London was in a Trident.

[pax britanica]

What a great thread and havent some people ahd the most fantastic experiences, very mean spirited I think for peopel to characterise it as boasting.

I have flown almost exclusively airline types and pretty much every mark or Airbus?minibus 737 and DC9/MD80 plus DC8s and tridents. Nothign very exceptional really -maybe the rarerest would be Standard Vc10 and its Russian Equivalent (well more like a Super I know) IL -62, maye an F28 isnt that common either. A bit better when it comes to varients maybe DC9-20 I think which was only made for SAS and had the original short body but the -30 wings . Amusing to see these little birds at Arlanda alongside an MD80 , the ultimate stretch. SAS liked a bit of exclsuivity since i think they were the only original owners of DC9-40s whch were semi stretched 30s. rarer but relatively common back in the day 707-400s DC8 40s and DC8 62s

The IL62 was CSA from LHR to Prague and was a very cool flight, nice spacious airplane , terrific performance on a short trip and fantastic spool up noise as we started the take off run. Excellent in flight service too starting with a large glass of Czech bear to acquaint the westerners and restore expat Czechs faith in the brewing industry. This was back in the communist days of course but Prague was still a fantastic place to visit, in some ways better than today now it is over run with tourists.

If one was starting out on this list today or any time in the last 5 years It would be alot shorter whn it came to airline types and likely to remain a lot shorter as there is little diversity at all now and at places like Stamnstead you could probably go all day seeing dozens of aircraft but only three or four airliner types

[Ancient Mariner]

Re Pax Britannica above. I suppose I was lucky being born in the fifties, first flight in '69. Sud Aviation Caravelle. Next flight, same year, Oslo to Curacao, via, via, via, via and with several different aircrafts. Amazing experience for a 16 year old traveling alone.
Per

[treadigraph]

Fitter2, surely it would be easier to compile a list of gliders you haven't flown! :)

[Fitter2]

Hi Treadigraph - I'd like to say I'm just getting started.. ;)

[longer ron]

Fitter2, surely it would be easier to compile a list of gliders you haven't flown! :)

I was amazed that I appear to have flown a glider type that Fitter2 has not :)
= Fokker Goevier - unless I missed it on his impressive list :)

[rogerg]

I think I have flown two glider types that fitter2 has missed.
Canguro at Aosta, and the kranich
Tell me I am wrong!!

[Ancient Mariner]

A few people have posted Russian types.
Interested to hear how that happened - domestic travel within the USSR or post Soviet Russia?
Anyone flown as pax/observer on any Russian military kit?
My experience with Russian aircrafts comes from extensive domestic travel in China 1991 to 96. I flew Xinjiang Airlines Il-86 Beijing-Urumchi/return. Interesting aircraft, enetered via airstairs at the bottom, room for luggage in the basement and up some stairs to the cabin. The seatbacks in front of you were fitted with fans which you could turn on at your convenience.
For the remaining types/trips I would have to dig out my collection of boarding cards, too lazy I'm afraid.
Per

[Fitter2]

Hi Rogerg

Kranich is in my list at number 3 in the 2 seat glider list. First time in November 1963 at Bicester, most recently 2 years ago. And the Goevier is on my list as the Go-4 (Goppingen vier). I remember it as being a very cosy cockpit - not sure i could fit in one now unless the other person was very slim.

The Canguro - you have got me there, but I realised although I had never flown an M-200, I had omitted the M-100S from my single seater list, so add 1 more :) I also missed off the EoN Primary, on which I have had one bungee launch, 1 winch launch and 1 aerotow - and have no wish to have any more. A late thought, I had also missed Dan Delap's Weihe, in which I had a few happy hours in 1967. Being in the RAFGSA at the time helped collect a few types, although there were rareties I missed (such as the Rheinland) not being in the right place at the right time.

[ian16th]

I won't attempts to compete on quanity, but oddity!
Anyone else travelled as SLF in one of these:
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/640x421/vfw_fokker_614_6e5cf1d8707d0bfa9c78f946d8897ac1d79486ad.jpg
VFW-Fokker 614
I once did, from Copenhagen Katstrup to Sønderborg

[longer ron]

The Goevier is on my list as the Go-4 (Goppingen vier). I remember it as being a very cosy cockpit - not sure i could fit in one now unless the other person was very slim.



Aha I had forgotten that it was a Goppingen design :),yes it was quite cosy,but not too bad a glider design - especially considering the year it was originally designed.Luckily the guy I was flying with was very slim and so was I in those days,my year working in zimbabwe had taken me from 15 stone down to 11 stone - which was a nice weight for most gliders.
Anyway congrats on your impressive list of gliders flown :)

[India Four Two]

Fitter2,

I nominate you as the "Winkle Brown" of glider pilots. What a list!

[Out Of Trim]

Kirby Cadet Mk3
Segberg
Chipmunk
Andover
C-130K
DC3
BO-105
PA31
PA34
BAC111
VC10
VC10K
HS748
L1011 Tristar
B-737
B-747
B-757
B-767
A330
A320
A319
C172
MD80
S360

[aerobelly]

A few people have posted Russian types.
Interested to hear how that happened - domestic travel within the USSR or post Soviet Russia?


The Antonov AN2 was operating sight-seeing trips in Hungary after Hungarian independence but before full breakup of USSR. With no other punters in sight at lunchtime on a very hot day I was offered a special deal for all six seats which I said I'd accept if I got some stick time. After discussion of the types I had flown a deal was struck. Not that an AN2 is much of a glider but I did know how to pronounce Puchacz which I think fixed it.

'a

[ian16th]

Astounding fact; there has been only one occurrence of the faithful Station Flight Avro 'Annie' Anson.

I must boost that number by 100%.

[horsebadorties]

1976 - Short Sandringham, west cost of Ireland, 1500ft, 150kts, being served a gin and tonic by Mrs Charles Blair, otherwise known an Maureen O'Hara.

Flew on it again a week later from Studland Bay and again a year later from Calshot.

[Fitter2]

Hi Ian16th
Astounding fact; there has been only one occurrence of the faithful Station Flight Avro 'Annie' Anson.
On my list as the very first time I left terra firma, as a 13 year young very new ATC cadet at Colerne. 30 minutes in the right hand seat, tour of Wiltshire and down to the Bristol Channel. It's funny how you remember every minute of some flights.

[Bob Viking]

Boarding a Dreamliner right now. Chalk up another one. List duly amended. Now 41.

BV

[cattletruck]

The lovely thing about this thread is that it has prompted the remaining brain cells in remembering the flying contraptions one has flown and the ones one has flown in. Keep it up.

[Planemike]

Found this an interesting read, despite one or two naysayers (miserable spoil sports).....!!

My list, entirely as SLF covers some 70 odd types mostly the "usual suspects".
My first flight(s) was in a Vickers Viking (don't think it has had a mention yet).
November 1952 out of Blackbushe, two and half days to Nairobi. Although I was
only seven at the time I remember loads of details. A memorable trip. It took
place only 20 years after the African route was opened up by Imperial Airways.
I do feel some affinity to the "pioneers" as we only few in daylight (two stops, Malta
and Khartoum) and the a/c was unpressurised so we did not fly much above 8000 -
10000 ft. A further 30 years on in 1983 covered the same route in about 8 hours,
BA 747 direct Heathrow to NBI. Progress....!!!

Possibly my most unusual type is a New Standard D29. Not too difficult to achieve,
at the time about $ 30.00 out of Old Rhinebeck.

Always looking for opportunities to fly in different type both commercial airline and
GA types. Last year I added Dornier 328 Jet to the list. Manchester to Billund.
Great flight, great experience, great cabin service. LoCo is was not!! while
in Denmark achieved another first, first flight in a gyrocopter.

Down in Cornwall this September, wondering if I can add Islander and DHC-6
to my list !!! Missed out on the S-61s.......!!

A "spotting" pal of mine at Eastleigh (Southampton) in 1963 probably
achieved a most unusual flight: a five minute circuit in the prone pilot
position in the R&S Desford G-AGOS. That flight could, of course, now
be repeated. Not sure how the front part is currently set up.

[treadigraph]

Possibly my most unusual type is a New Standard D29. Not too difficult to achieve,
at the time about $ 30.00 out of Old Rhinebeck.

I bought a ticket for that, not enough time for the ride before the show and unfortunately a developing crosswind not only terminated the display half way through, it also grounded the pleasure flights... :{

[pulse1]

Damn! I forgot my second ever flight was in the old Anson. I also forgot several flights in the Avro 748 (Danair). I wish I could remember the name of the glider I went up in in Colorado. It achieved one of my dreams, as we soared to over 16000' over the Rockies. And just remembered a couple of trips in the Twin Otter, one Danair and the other, a beautiful low level dusk trip from Reading Pa to Newark.

[ian16th]

I bought a ticket for that, not enough time for the ride before the show and unfortunately a developing crosswind not only terminated the display half way through, it also grounded the pleasure flights... :{

The best day out I ever had in the USA was a Sunday in August at Old Rhinebeck.

Re my 1st Anson flight, it wasn't in an 'old' Anson, it was quite new. They were still building them at the time, 1952 :ok:

[Burnt Fishtrousers]

Ok im going to have to break my cover..the names Aldrin and does a Saturn V and a LEM qualify?

[Fitter2]

No, sorry, neither has wings. (Hell of a ride though) :E

[Burnt Fishtrousers]

Bugger! hat coat...or should I say helmet space suit

[treadigraph]

Moon landings? But they were faked ! You can count Gemini XII though... (ducks under Buzz's awesome right hook...) :}

[PPRuNeUser0139]

Mixed bunch!

DH Rapide / Dominie
DC-3
Sud Aviation Caravelle
Varsity
JP3
Hawker Siddeley Dominie T1
Shackleton AEW2
Bristol Britannia
Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star
F-111F
Fairey Gannet AEW3
DH Comet
Hunter T8
Nimrod AEW3
Vickers VC10
Beechcraft King Air
Boeing E-3A, E-3C, E-3D, E-3F, TS3
Boeing 707 CT-49A (TCA)
Lockheed TriStar
Avro Vulcan
Chinook
Wessex
Sea King
Robin DR400

[Ancient Observer]

My younger daughter, now late 20s, travelled quite a lot in 747s when she was young. One of those that enjoyed running up and down the stairs on a 747.
Later, getting on a 320 for a Euro flight, she said that it was not a real plane as it didn't have an upstairs.

[Super VC-10]

All you chaps and chapesses claiming the DH Comet, I presume it's the 106 and not the 88. :confused:

[India Four Two]

Boarding a Dreamliner right now.
I’ve had three trips on a Dreamliner in the last two years. I definitely feel less tired and recover more quickly after flying in one.

It’s now my new favourite, having supplanted the late-lamented L1011.

Later, getting on a 320 for a Euro flight, she said that it was not a real plane as it didn't have an upstairs.

In the early 80s, we travelled from Jakarta to Singapore in a Cathay 747 and then boarded a MAS 737. My four year old son, who by this time had travelled around the world three times, said “Dad, where’s the spiral staircase?”

Motorgliders that I don’t think have been mentioned:
RF-5B
Ogar
IS-28B2

[PPRuNeUser0139]

All you chaps and chapesses claiming the DH Comet, I presume it's the 106 and not the 88. :confused:
Indeed.. It was XS 235 - the A&AEE Comet..

[evansb]

1% of responses are actually answering your question. My question is why do you want to know the number of aircraft? Why not ask the number of flights or the number of different types of aircraft? Why the number of aircraft? What do you hope to glean by your question, other than concluding that people generally answer their own question and disregard your original question?

My answer to your question is approximately 185.

[Planemike]

1% of responses are actually answering your question. My question is why do you want to know the number of aircraft? Why not ask the number of flights or the number of different types of aircraft? Why the number of aircraft? What do you hope to glean by your question, other than concluding that people generally answer their own question and disregard your original question?

My answer to your question is approximately 185.

What are you trying to prove evansb....?? The OP provided a list of types so not too surprising others followed suit....

[tartare]

The Tin Triangle, Side?
I am impressed.
Up front, or down the back?

[PPRuNeUser0139]

Down the back. I was going to GK for a meeting and hitched a cheap day return ride.
Amused to hear the "Enemy coast ahead" call on coasting in!:ok:

[Captivep]

1% of responses are actually answering your question. My question is why do you want to know the number of aircraft? Why not ask the number of flights or the number of different types of aircraft? Why the number of aircraft? What do you hope to glean by your question, other than concluding that people generally answer their own question and disregard your original question?

My answer to your question is approximately 185.
Given that the OP answered the original question by listing aircraft types (rather than the number of aluminium tubes s/he has actually sat in) I think it's safe to assume that s/he wanted the number of types. Unless, of course, you are suggesting that the OP has only flown once on each individual type listed (possible, I grant you, but unlikely).

[Trossie]

Five types (as pax) above PA31 size that I forgot to add to my list (https://www.pprune.org/10221954-post38.html):
CRJ200
Aero Commander 690
Piper T1040
Queen Air
C404 Titan


As others have added many types smaller than 'PA31 size', I shall add them in too (all as pax):
PA30 Twin Comanche
PA23 Aztec
PA34 Seneca
C310
C401
C402
PA28 Cherokee and Warrior
PA32 Cherokee Six and Saratoga
PA38 Tomahawk
C150/C152 (both)
C172
C182
C185
C206
C210
AA1
AA5
Ercoupe
Helio Courier
Navion
Maule

I've been pax in a couple of helicopters, but do they count?
(I've also left a couple of aeroplane types out...)

As I've said: ... and then I've flown a few myself.

[Pontius Navigator]

Down the back. I was going to GK for a meeting and hitched a cheap day return ride.
Amused to hear the "Enemy coast ahead" call on coasting in!:ok:
Which would support my contention that we could all remember the detail of one-off or few flights with specific detail where we made many flights in one type.

Islander Inverness to probably Glasgow and no idea why, but being walked to the aircraft, door opened, stepped into seat, hostess handed me a Scotsman (no sniggering please), and returned to the terminal.

[GLIDER 90]

Here are some of the following.
B727-200
B737
B747
C-130
Cessna 152
Chinook
Chipmunk
Concorde
DC-3
K7 Glider
K8 Glider
Venture T2 Glider
Lockheed L-188 Electra
Lockheed L-1011
PA-28
Sikorsky S-58T
Sikorsky S-61
Shorts 360
Nimrod
VC-10
Victor K2
Vickers Vanguard
Tristar.

[Trossie]

Glad someone's revived this. I'd forgotten a very important aeroplane off my list:

Beaver (sadly not with floats though -- GtW please note!)

[Harley Quinn]

Just to be reprehensible: these lists are the equivalent of saying I sat on this train or bus. I accept that if one actually piloted an aircraft that would have some kudos, but to list the different cars, buses, trains, trams, taxis, (and for the dinosaurs out there), planes one had travelled in as a passenger seems somewhat precious and, to be honest, rather naff.

[svhar]

Vickers Vicount when I was six years old was my first flight. DC-6 on the way back home. Then I decided that I wanted to be a pilot. I was more impressed with the Vicount. Those big windows. 54 years ago. I have flown all of the Boeings except the 777 and 787. And the DC-8.
I am not sure which I love more, the DC-8 or the 747. As a passenger I have lost the count.

[Um... lifting...]

I have flown in never more than one at a time, on numerous occasions.

About a year ago I took my first flight in a CS300, now the A220. A dozen days after that, I took my second flight in a CS300. I believe I flew POSH, or perhaps it was the opposite. Either way, it was a scheduled airline flight, I was a passenger, I was given a sandwich and beverage, my seat was reasonably comfortable, the temperature and humidity were within specified limits. As far as it being an accomplishment, I can state categorically that I bought my ticket and found my way to the appropriate gate on time. I doubt that's going to win me the Harmon Trophy, however.

[Pontius Navigator]

HQ, spoil sport. Perhaps better in history and nostalgia, it was a good brain exercise and brought memories back of some memorable flights.

Three Egyptair flights in May 1973 were particularly memorable. One, our luggage followed by a separate flight. The airfield was a military one as the civil air port was closed. Fascinating seeing all the Soviet kit burning and turning, ADA pits all fully manned.

The next where we all trooped out to the aircraft. They counted the pax stopped us with an arm in the middle of a family. Like a bus, the aircraft was now full. They relented and let the others through.

Finally, on taxiing out, the aircraft accelerated, nose wheel unstuck, and then reverse pitch was selected before the pilot made a tight high-speed turn on to the runway and off.

I am sure these types of memories were rekindled by many.

[On Final]

How many aircraft have I flown in my lifetime?

1. A330, A340
2. A319,A320, A321
3. MD-80, DC-9
4. Lear 25
5. CE501
6. Sa227
7. R-22
8. Blanik Glider
9. B-727 FE
10. B-747 FE
11. BE200, BE100, BE 90, C-208
12. C-210,C185 wheels and floats and skis, C-182, C172, C-152, C150
13. Blanica Scout, Citabria, Beech Dutchess, PA-31, Aztec, Siminole, Baron, C-421, C210
14. Super cub wheels, floats, skis
15. Pa-14, PA-12, Tailorcraft, J-3
16. Hang gliders old Eipper formance kites

25,000 hours

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Beaver (sadly not with floats though -- GtW please note!)
I've flown in many Beavers with floats, but never one without - waste of a good Beaver.

[Andy H]

This is a fascinating thread, with an amazing variety of aircraft Ppruners have piloted. But so little mention of microlights! For my sins I have flown, as P1, in the following
Bantam B22
Cosmik EV-97 Eurostar
Cyclone AX-3
Ikarus c-42
RANS S6
Spacek SD-2 Minisport
TEAM Minimax 91
Thruster T-600
Thruster TST

Plus a few gliders in my youth!

Andy

[pilotmike]

Flown as PIC / Instructor:

Gliders - Tutor, K13, K7, K21, K6E, K6CR, Pilatus B4, Club Libelle, Std Libelle, ASW19

Microlights - Flash, Flash2, Flash2A, Blade, Mercury, Hornet, XL, Q, Quantum, Quasar, Quik, Chaser S, Scorcher, Puma / Sprint, Medway Raven, Sirocco, Shadow B, C, D, Streak SL, StarStreak, Snowbird, Chevvron, Spectrum, Renegade Spirit, Thruster T600/TST, XAir, Mistral, Savannah, Skyranger, MW6, C42, Rans S6, Jabiru, Cyclone AX3, EV97 Eurostar

Light aircraft - C150, 152, 172, 182, Cherokee, Warrior, Arrow, Seneca, Super Cub, Auster, Jodel, Europa Classic Monowheel /XS Tri gear, DA42 Twinstar

ATPL(A) - 737 classic / NG, BAe146, Avro RJ85

CPL(H) - R22, R44, B206

I’m sure I’ve left a few off.

[Buster11]

From 1946 on.
Dragon Rapide
Autocrat
Anson
Oxford
Sedbergh
T-31
Auster 6
Avro 748
Bristol Freighter
Magister
Tiger Moth
Chipmunk
BAC 1-11
B-737 (various series)
B-747
B-757
Tristar
L-1011
A-319
A-321
A-340
A-380
Tri-Pacer
Rallye
Saab 2000
BAe 146
IL-86
Tu-154
Wilga
Motor Blanik
Aero 45
Er, that's it...

[Dublin88]

Not a single yet. But I have the plan to visit some places this year. :)

[Ascend Charlie]

Need to add one to my list - a tandem parachute from 15,000' yesterday. Well, it is some sort of aircraft, innit? The one I jumped out of was a Cessna Caravan. My landings are now one less than my takeoffs.

[treadigraph]

Are you going to change your Nom de PPRuNe to Descend Charlie? ☺

[pppdrive]

Surely nobody keeps records of all the different types they've flown in as pax?

I do and have not only details written in two different 'log books,' but also a spreadsheet version plus I use "Flight Diary", now "my flightradar24." Having worked both on the ground and also as a Loadmaster I've kept details of every flight I've been on including pictures of a lot of them.

[megan]

Surely nobody keeps records of all the different types they've flown in as pax? As a tyke I used to, and wish now that I had kept up the practice. Once had a passenger pass a notebook to the cockpit with the request to fill it out, a logbook for all intense purposes. It was interesting to leaf through it and find some long previously known identities and what they were now doing eg ex instructor I had who was 20 YO at the time I knew him now left seat in a 744.

[Pontius Navigator]

A C, I have about 3 more landings than take offs.

[Matt Skrossa]

Not my claim to fame, but a much-loved aviator who many of us now involved in aviation were inspired by was Ray Roberts (Ex RAF and ATA) when he was a civilian gliding instructor at 618 VGS at West Malling in the 70's and 80's. . At his funeral wake in Kent (he was 101) his daughter produced his log books (5) and here is his impressive list:

Tutor
Magister
Tiger Moth
Master
Hart
Hind
Queen Bee
Fairchild
Harvard
Albacore
Battle
Puss Moth
Lysander
Hurricane (All marks at the time)
Defiant
Spitfire (All marks at the time)
Henley
Seafire
Oxford
Anson
Blenheim
Martinet
Wellington
Bisley
Mustang
Whitley
Beaufort
Hudson
Botha
Barracuda
Typhoon
Ablemarle
Proctor
Relaint
Swordfish
Fulmar
Firefly
Mosquito
Whirlwind
Dakota
Warwick
Seamew
Ventura
Boston
Beaufighter
Corsair
Tempest
Auster
Hellcat
Mitchell
Vengeance
Gladiator
Wildcat
Dominie
Warwick
Welkin
Traveller
Buckingham
Meteor
Buckmaster
Gemini
Chipmunk

Plus numerous gliders and a two-seat Spitfire on his 100th birthday!

[NoelEvans]

A C, I have about 3 more landings than take offs.
You have three times what I have! (And I suspect probably the same way?) However, it's a credit balance that I have been very pleased about for decades and I intend to keep it that way!

[old,not bold]

Rather than my list, here's my father's more interesting list, from his RAF logbook, in order of first appearance as P1. He did his ab initio training with a civilian FTS, as did many RAF pilots in 1937

DH 82
Hart-T
Audax
Heyford
DH Dragon (DH 84?)
DH84 Dragon Rapide
DH89 Dragon Rapide
Wellington (Incl raid on Brunsbuttel 4th Sept 1939)
Magister
Wallace
Tutor
Oxford
Hornet Moth (noted as "Service aircraft", LFP at Filton.)
Fury
Harvard
Gauntlet
Anson
Botha (March 1940, Brize Norton)
Mentor
Lysander
Defiant
Blenheim
Junkers 52 (Rhodesia Sep 1942)
Wellington III
Lancaster III (1st conversion flight 10 August 1943, 5 operations to Germany from 22 Sept - 2nd October, shot down on 5th, near Munich)
Chipmunk (postwar)

It strikes me that they gave aircraft much nicer names in those days. It is also quite noticeable that once he was on a squadron, his first flights in several types were as P1 with no P2 or passenger, ie read the manual, climb in, start up and go.

[Training Risky]

Interesting exercise - good to see so many disparate types. My own logbooks have the following as a mix of P1, P2, dual and jumpseat between 93-05:

Vigilant T1
Chipmunk T.10
Bulldog T1
Cessna-152
Cessna-172
DV-20 Katana
PA28-140 Cherokee
PA28-151 Warrior
WT1 ‘Tailwind’ (kit-plane)
PA23 Aztec
PA28R Arrow
PA32 Saratoga
Firefly T67 M260
Squirrel HT1 (AS350/Airbus H125)
Griffin HT1 (Bell 412EP)
Chinook HC2/2A
Europa XS (kit-plane)
Harrier T10
Hercules C-130J
Wessex HC2
Jetstream T1
Nimrod MR2
Sea King HAR3
Sea King HC4
Falcon DA20
Tristar C2
Hercules C3 (C130K)
VC-10
Puchacz (winch-launch glider)

[57mm]

Let me see:
Zylbat
Fireball XL5
Thunderbird 1 through 4
Millennium Falcon
Nostromo
Starship Enterprise
Klingon Battlecruiser
X wing fighter

......all before they locked me away, of course....

[cumulusrider]

Brittania,
Beverley,
Varsity.
Hastings (5 days back from singapore)
VC10
Tristar
737
757
A320
tiger moth
C150
C172
Cherokee
Super cub
Robin DR400
Robin R44
Ka7
Skylark 3
Olypia 2b
Astir cs
Blanik
Auster
K13
Duo discus
Ka8
K21
PZL Junior
ASH25
Nimbus 3dt
Stemme
DG1000
Glasflugal Mosquito
DG101
ASW19
Discus
Grob 102
Grob103
DG300
Ventus c
Slingsby T21
ASH30
and counting

[MFC_Fly]

Surely I am not the only person here to have the Beagle Husky amongst my list of types?

[KING6024]

Just realised my Memory is starting to let me down.

Auster Autocrat x 2 Elstree. G-AGXT
Chipmunk x 2 Cottesmore and another. RAF
Anson x 2 Bovingdon RAF
Devon x1 Bovingdon RAF
Comet 4 to Hong Kong BOAC
Boeing 707 from Hong Kong. BOAC
Lockheed Electra Auckland to Melbourne. TEAL
Viscount Melbourne to Hobart. ANSA ANA
Airbus ?? Heathrow to Zurich and return. Swissair ??
Glasgow to Heathrow Type.?? shuttle.
Dublin to Liverpool and Heathrow Viscount and Jet type ?? Aer Lingus.
Cessna150 152 and 172 as pilot. Ipswitch
Cherokee Ipspwich and Martlesham Heat.as pilot.
Getting Married got in the way.

Memory used to be very sharp but now going off Rapidly. Care Home to blame !!
Just Remembered Tiger Moth from Duxford on my 70th Birthday.
Winched up in Glider possibly Slingsby from Halton.

[kcockayne]

Know how you feel ! Most notable types I have flown in include:
Stinson Tri Motor
Dragon Rapide
Dove
Heron
Percival Sea Prince
Carvair,
Skyvan
TU134
TU154
Argosy
B25 Mitchell
Bulldog
Many others not flown, though.

[wub]

I had a count up and since 1962, when I first flew in a BEA Dart Herald, I have flown in 68 types and piloted 9, all gliders. I have flown in single, twin, tri and four jets and props, single and twin rotor helicopters and an airship.

[Level bust]

I just had a count up, since my first flight in 1966 in a Channel A/W Viscount to last month in a CAP 10 I've flown in 108 different types. If you include sub types (B737-200, B737-300 etc) it comes to 126.

[treadigraph]

Kept a passenger log - my dad's logbook provided most of my pre-teen info, probably a few gaps tho where he was a passenger too, lost my Junior Jet Club log but I know when, who and what those five flights were, can guess the hours!). Most interesting types, Chippy, Pup, Cv440, Waco UPF-7, Stinson SM-8, Bell 47, DC-3, S-61N, floatplane J-3, Citabria, Rapide. Think there are just over 30 types all told.

[browndhc2]

An interesting list King 6024.
Your Glasgow-Heathrow shuttle would most likely have been a Trident 1C or 3B or possibly a Boeing 757-236.
The jet sectors ex Dublin would most likely have been either a BAC One Eleven 200 or Boeing 737-200 I guess.

I whish I had been more diligent in recording the registrations of types I "paxed" in. However I do know that a couple of them are now in preservation.

[uxb99]

P51
Piper Cub on floats
Beech 18
Martin 404
Lockheed Constellation
Boeing Steerman
747
777
737
A320
and almost a DC10 (never got airborne)

[WHBM]

"Interesting" types only (but got carried away a bit listing them).

De Havilland Fox Moth
De Havilland Dragon Rapide
Vickers Viscount
One-Eleven
Trident 1 and 3
HS748
BAe146
Saab 340 and 2000
Dornier 328
Tupolev Tu154
Antonov An-2 (takeoff but not landing :) )
Let 410 (likewise)
Islander
Cessna and Piper, various

and I suppose ...

Airbus A300, A310, A320, A330, A340, A380
Boeing 707, 720B, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, 787
Douglas DC9, DC10, MD11
Fokker F27, F50, F100
E190

[dc9-32]

My most favourite to have flown on are AN124 and AN22, oh and the B720B.

[oldpax]

Not many,Shacks 1 2 &3. Anson,lincoln,Argonaut,Argosy,Varsity Britannia ,Hastings.
After that 707,727,and all the usual wide bodies etc,oh and the 380! Small ones fro guantanamo to lauderdale,Apache?Twice in 748s one ex IAF!!lots of twin otters and dash 7s, Bae 146 and something that looked like an ex RNjetstream!
There may be others! Oh yes Air Inter Caravelle.A small box with wings SEAT??

[FarWest]

Off the top of my head:

Chimunk
Gnat
F4
Lightning
Nimrod
Viscount
BAC 1-11
Islander
Jaguar
Hunter
Tristar
VC-10
Airbus A300, A310, A320, A330, A340, A380
Boeing 707, 720B, 727, 737, 747, 757, 767, 777, 787
Douglas DC9, DC10, MD11
Fokker F27, F50, F100
E190

[chevvron]

First flight with the ATC in Aug 1962 then:
Argosy, Piston Provost, Beverley, Chipmunk, Anson, Shackleton, Varsity, DH Dragon, Brantly B2, Terrier,TriPacer, Devon, C150/152, Dominie, Cherokee, Belfast, Brittania, C172, MotorFalke, Trident, Viscount, Islander, Dove, '748, Dauphin, 707, 737, Jetranger, DC9, Tristar, 727, Scout, Herald, BAC 1-11, Andover, Sioux, 747, Comet, Gazelle, C310, Dakota, 720, Wessex, Puma, Lynx, Hawk, Hunter, F27, ATR 72, Dash 8, '146, numerous Airbus types, Squirrel, Cyclone AX3, Chevvron, Shadow, Monnet Moni, Jetstream, Optica, Shorts 330.
Plus glider/SLMGs Sedbergh, Mk3, Prefect (the real one not the new one), Venture, Vigilant.Ka13

[Arthur Bellcrank]

Airbus A320, A300B4(F). Boeing 727,737,747,757,767,777. Cessna 441,500,525,550/560,560XL Douglas DC6, DC9, DC10. BAC 1-11. Vickers Viscount, Bristol Britannia, HP Herald, Fokker F27, HS 748, HS Nimrod, DH Chipmunk, DH Rapide, DHC Twin Otter, DHC Dash 8, Shorts 330/360, Shorts Belfast, AW Argosy, Lockheed Electra, Lockheed C130, Lockheed Tristar, Jet Provost, Canadair RJ, EC135, Bell JetRanger, Pitts Special, Vickers VC10, Kingair200, Cessna 150, Fairchild Metro III. Partenavia P68, Comanche, Embraer 170, Dassault Falcon 20. Piper PA31. BAe 146.

[visibility3miles]

First flight in Mooney 201.

We were supposed to fly a Cessna 152, but somehow someone else booked it, so the Mooney was the only “trainer” plane available.

Turn right, turn left, up, down, all while zipping along at high speed. :-)

Beech E-18 at a drop zone where some friends were skydiving. I was more comfortable staying in the plane as an observer, but the pilot let me fly it for a while before we landed.

My hours are split about 50:50 between Pipers and Cessnas.
Usual list for a private pilot:
Piper Tomahawk
Piper Warrior
Cessn 140
Cessna150
Cessna 152
Cessna 172

Beech Bonanza, Again, a friend gave me the controls of the plane, but not enough to log.

[visibility3miles]

And if you are asking how many types that I have flown in, as opposed to have flown…

The list goes on.

I think the first time I got air sick was in a DC-3, but I was very young and green in judgement, or at least green due to the turbulence. :ooh:

[Rai Ghan]

Chipmunk in the ATC in ~1960 my first time in a plane.
Boeing 707, 727, 737, 747, multipe times.
Airbus's of various A? what ever mumbers were except the A380 multible times
DC 10 a couple of times.
DC3 twice.
Shorts slab sided prop job only twice thankfuly,
Dash 8 multible times.
Queenair only once in 1976 courtesy of the RFDS strapped to the floor.
Cessna 182 I think it was, several times on fishing trips.

All of the aircraft were from, RAF Chivenor, Singapore Airlines, Qantas, TAA, Ansett, QantasLink, Bush Pilots Airways, RFDS, Mt Isa Fying Club. :)

[KING6024]

There is one that didn't happen,sat for hours in the ops. room at Bovingdon waiting for the Wx to lift to allow a flight in a Meteor T7. We were allowed in a T7 because it didn't have an ejector seat and CCF cadets weren't trained.Needlless to say the Wx didn't clear.

[old,not bold]

P1
Thruxton Jackaroo
Tiger Moth
Auster Autocrat
Piper Caribbean
Miles Gemini
C150/172/206
Jodel II7
Beagle Pup 150
Cherokee 140
Aztec A
Chipmunk
Wassmer Balladou
Percival Prentice (LGW - SHJ)
Rallye
Grumman Cougar
EV97 Eurostar

Pu/t only
BN2A
Shorts Skyvan

Pax in the back
DC3
DH Rapide
DC4
DC6
DC7
Britannia (RAF & Eagle)
Convair 990 Coronado
DC8-63
BAe 146
BAC 1-11
B707 (Various)
VC10
Trident
B727
Dash 7
Dash 8
F27
Dart Herald
Carvair
Bristol Freighter
Shorts Skyvan
Shorts 330
Shorts 360
B737 (Various)/B777/747/B757/B767
Beechcraft B80/B100/200
Twin Otter
Pilatus Porter (SOAF)
A320
A340
DC9
Saab 340
Bandeirante
Sikorski S61NM (BEAH)
Sikorski S76 (perhaps S71?)
CH-37 (Fort Sill OK)
Hawker Hunter T7 (FAC Course, 3X30 minutes).
DH Beaver (Army)
Shackleton (RAF)
Twin Pioneer (RAF)
Whirlwind (RN)
Wessex (RN)
Skeeter (Army)
Lynx (Army)
Gazelle (Army)
Scout (Army)
Sea Fury (RN Historical flight, 1 hour at EGTE)
Concorde (EGTE -EGTE late 1980s, c 75 minutes jump seat all the way; plus 1 hour 16 minutes flight from/to Abu Dhabi in 1974, certificated by he Captain Brian Trubshaw.))
Spitfire (Boultings, 1 hour EGTE - EGTE 2020)

On Board for 50% of the flight only
Argosy (RAF)
Hastings (RAF)
Beverly (RAF)
Captive Balloon (RAF)

Suddenly, after doing that from memory, I'm feeling very old; it goes back over 7 decades. Jesus, the care home is looming. And I left the gliders out.

[TCU]

Can't compete with most of those wonderful lists/memories above, but one day in Kenya back in 2019 I flew in a DHC-6, DHC-7 and DHC-8, one after the other, in that order...that made the teenage plane spotter in me smile.

[Planemike]

I've skimmed through and am surprised that no one has mentioned my all time favourite, the Let 410. Thousands were made so surely I'm not the only one here?
Used to fly on them with SeAir around the Philippines.
Per
LET 410 is on my list.... Ronaldsway ( Isle of Man ) to Squires Gate (Blackpool.) On the same day I managed my one and only flight in BAe 146. Gatwick to Ronaldsway...

[25F]

As SLF it's been fun reading this and made me compile my own list - which isn't worth posting at about 25 types so far.
I expect a few more might occur to me. There's some "don't-knows" - flying from Bratislava to Prague in '97, I remember it was probably an Antonov - any ideas?
Lots of DC-3 mentioned but I (in my mid-fifties) *might* be the youngest person here to take a scheduled flight in one rather than a "jolly". The one I remember involved a desert-strip landing where we all had to disembark whilst hand-pumped refueling took place. I threw a spectacular strop and was allowed back (accompanied by cabin crew) to retrieve my teddy. Of course, being a devious toddler, I just wanted to get back on the plane and be the only passenger allowed to break the rules. Worth it - don't think I have been in a silent and empty airliner since.
[I think I've mentioned this before but the search tool can't find it - so apologies for repetition, if so.]

[brakedwell]

Short Sunderland. First Flights ever when on CCF camp at Pembroke Dock.
Anson
Oxford
Rapide
Fairy Firefly
Chipmunk
Canberra B2
Piston Provost
Vampire 5, 9 and T11
Meteor 7 and 8
Hastings
RCAF Argonaut
Taylorcraft plus D
Tiger Moth
Auster Autocrat
Beverley
Bristol Sycamore
Wessex
Twin Pioneer
Pembroke
Valletta
Argosy
DC3
Britannia
C130
Comet 2 and 4
VC 10
Boeing 747
DC8 55 and 63
BAC 125
Airbus 300
Airbus 320
Boeing 707
DC9
DC10
Tristar
Dart Herald
Boeing 737 200
BAC 111
Boeing 757/200
Boeing 727/200
Boeing 767/300

[Gordomac]

Just happened to be going through log-books for other reasons but was rather proud of my many types. Then stumbled on this thread and feel very, very, low down in ramking.

I started on Bolkow Junior at Shoreham and ended with A340. Quite a few in between including Boeings, but, ohmigosh, you lot.........I am NOT worthy !

[teusje]

As PAX only

British Airways Airbus A319-100
Air France Airbus A320-200
Aer Lingus Airbus A321-200
Qantas Airbus A330-300
Cathay Pacific Airbus A340-300
Emirates Airbus A380-800
Flybe Avions de Transport Régional ATR.72-600
Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 717-200
Sabena Boeing 737-200
British Midland Boeing 737-300
Aer Lingus Boeing 737-400
Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-400
British Airways Boeing 737-400
Icelandair Boeing 737-400
Qantas Boeing 737-400
Air France Boeing 737-500
British Midland Boeing 737-500
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 737-700
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 737-800
Qantas Boeing 737-800
Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900
Air New Zealand Boeing 747-400
Cathay Pacific Boeing 747-400
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Boeing 747-400
Qantas Boeing 747-400
British Airways Boeing 757-200
Icelandair Boeing 757-200
Icelandair Boeing 757-200(winglets)
Delta Airlines Boeing 757-300
Icelandair Boeing 757-300
Qantas Boeing 767-200
British Airways Boeing 767-300
Delta Airlines Boeing 767-300
Qantas Boeing 767-300
Delta Airlines Boeing 767-400
British Airways Boeing 777-200
United Airlines Boeing 777-200
Emirates Boeing 777-300
Southern Air Britten-Norman BN2A-26 Islander
Southern Air Cessna 172M
Air Fiordland Cessna A185F
Cityjet Fokker F.27-050
VLM Fokker F.27-050
NLM Cityhopper Fokker F.28-4000
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines McDonnell-Douglas DC.9-32

[SaulGoodman]

C172
C182*
C206
C208*
AN2
TB200
TB20
PA34
A30B
A306*
B744*
B748

* are my favourites.

[Gordomac]

Aaaaaah. Feel a bit more worthy. Just noticed the opener asked about aircraft "flown in" rather than "flown". Up their with you heavyweights and can offer a long list . First was a KLM DC4. I was 5. Walking out to the aircraft, I noticed a long metal tube thingy was stuck on the underside of the tail and looked as though it was there to stop the tail falling to the ground.

The last was a Eazy 73, in and out of Gatters for the Air Europe re-union. L o n g list in between.

[Cahlibahn]

Comet 4
Caravelle
DC8
DC9
Super Constellation
707
Trident
Britannia
Viscount
720
727
737
747
767
777
BAC111
IL18
IL62
VC10/Super VC10
Convair 990
Fokker F27
Fokker F28
Fokker F100
Embraer E190
A318
A319
A320
A300

[bobward]

Some very impressive lists there. However, like MFC Fly, I too have flown in the Beagle Husky, courtesy of No 5 AEF at Cambridge.
The nice pilot let me fly it for a while, and I succeeded in making one of the other cadet's air sick. He never forgave me for that!

[rog747]

Comet 4 4B 4C
Caravelle 12 10B3 10R 11R V1R STERLING AVIACO TRANSEUROPA IBERIA SAM
DC8 21 32 50 61 62 63
DC9 15 32 51 83
DC10 10 30
DC6 TTAS SAM
DC3 PBA
MARTIN 404 PBA
707 120B 138B 320 320B 320C 420
HS Trident 1 1E > 3
HS 748
HS 146 100 200 300
Britannia 102 312
Viscount 700 800 810
HP HERALD
720B
727 100 200
737 200 > 800
747 100 200 200SUD 300 400 SP
757 200 300
767 200 300
777 200 300
787 8 9
BAC 111 200 > 500
ROMBAC 500 BIA DAN AIR
SH330 SH360
ATR 42 72
DORNIER 228 OLYMPIC AVIATION
TU-134A-3 AVIOGENEX
VC10 Super VC10
Tristar L-1011
Convair 990
Fokker F27 F50 F100
Embraer ERJ 145 E190 BANDIT BRASILIA
A319 A320 A321
A300 B4 600R
A330 200 300
A340 300 600
SAAB 340
DASH 7 8 Q400
DH TWIN OTTER and in Maldives as sea plane

Smaller types in Africa, LET 410 Cessna C182 C404 CARAVAN Grand Caravan (Kenya Safaris Wilson Mara Meru Shaba Mombasa Pemba Zanzibar)

AVRO Lancaster (I had to buy a ticket!)

cannot think of any others.....

[Danny G]

Okay from memory
Boeing 707-436
Boeing 727 100
Boeing 737-200
Boeing 737-300
Boeing 737-400
Boeing 737-500
Boeing 737-700
Boeing 737-800
Boeing 747-100
Boeing 757-200
Boeing 767-200
Boeing 767-300
Boeing 787-800
Boeing 787-900
Douglas MD82
Douglas MD83
BAC1-11 300
BAC 1-11 500
HS Trident 3
Airbus A300-B4
Airbus 319
Airbus 320
Airbus A321
Airbus A330
Lockheed L1011-200
DHC Dash8 Q300
DGC Dash 8 Q400
Embraer 145
BAE ATP
ATR 172
Cessna 150
Cessna 172
Bell H13

[Gargleblaster]

I have not flown in an F16, but am owed a flight in one. Some 20 years ago I flew a young man to his entry-session in the DK air force, and while enroute, I distinctly remember us firmly agreeing, that if he got in and got to fly F16s, he'd give me a tour ! Probably not going to happen, although I remind the family every time I run into one of them...

[ffripaud]

Junker 52

DC 3

DC 4

BAC 1-11

Fokker 27

Boeing 707-436

Boeing 707-336

Boeing 737

Boeing 727

Boeing 747

MD 11

L 10-11 Tristar

Boeing 777

Boeing 787 Dreamliner

DHC6 – Twin Otter

ATR 42

ATR 72

Airbus A320

Airbus A340

Airbus A319

Airbus A380

Embraer 190

[brakedwell]

Might as well join in the fun.
Passenger P1 & P2

Short Sunderland
Firefly
Canberra B2
Piston Provost
Vampire V IX
Vampire T11
Tiger Moth
Auster Aiglet
Taylorcraft Plus D
Hastings
Meteor 7 and 8
Comet 2
Beverley
Sikorsky S51
Westland Wessex
Anson 12, 19, 21
Chipmunk
Twin Pioneer
Pembroke
Valletta
Argosy
Britannia
VC10
Dart Herald
DC3
DC 4
DC6
DC8 54, 63
DC9
DC 10
BAC 111
Boeing 707
Boeng 727 200
Boeing 737 200
Boeing 757 200
Boeing 767 300
Boeing 747, 100 200 300
Tristar
A300
A320

[ATNotts]

And mine:

DC3
​​​​DC8-63
DC9-10
DC9-30
DC10-10
DC10-30
MD83
MD87
Convair 580
​​​​B.707-320
B.720B
B.727-100
B.737-200,300,400,500,800
B.747-100 Freighter
B.747-100
B.747-200
B.757
B.767-200
​​​​​​B.767-300
F-27
F-50
F-70
F-100
Canadair CRJ
Tu-154
IL62
Viscount
Shorts 360
ATR42
Dash 8-400
BAe 146
RJ100
A.319, 320, 321
TriStar 1

A heck of a lot more than I thought!

[almost professional]

Might as well add mine to the mix…..

Beagle Husky
C150
C172
C182
PA28
AC114
Mooney M20
Victa Airtourer
Auster AOP9
C208 (floats)
DHC2 (floats)
C404
Jetranger
S341 Gazelle
HS125
Comet 4
B720
BAC1-11
B737 200/300/400/800
B757
B767
B747 200/400
B777
DC10
A300
A319/320
A340/600
A330
Viscount
146
DHC-8/400

[sablatnic]

Cloudbase hangglider

Bobcat II hangglider

Super Scorpion hangglider

Trike ul

Another trike also ul

2G Primary glider

FES-350 Lehrmeister

Ka 7 glider

Ka 8 glider

Ask 13 glider

Ask 21 glider

Schempp-Hirth Janus

Scheibe SF 28 Tandem-Falke

Ultra light in Albatros

Pa 28R-180

Pa 28-235

PA-34 Seneca leaking hyd. valve. Bumped the gear up each 30 seconds.

Cessna 172 severely out of trim - needed more than full rudder to stall straight!

Piaggio 149

Boeing 747-200

CRJ 900

MD-81

And of course the ones I've forgotten.

[longer ron]

Just to update my previous post - who would have thought that within 1 month of that post I would do 56 mins in a Schweizer 2-32 on a 'Mile High' flight at Boulder,CO (with a little weak thermalling thrown in) and by the end of the year I was back in the game.
The 2-32 was an interesting warbird survivor - it had been converted to a Lockheed QT-2 high altitude quiet reconnaissance a/c and had been reconverted back to glider config - still with a Lockheed logo on the fin.

So can add to my list of P1 types

SZD 'Junior'
DG200 (half share)
I also had a one fifteenth share in a 1962 K8 (now that was cheap flying :) )
Within 1 year I had finished off my Gold Badge with a climb to 11,500' near Loch Leven :)
Unfortunately I had to quit flying last year due to too many red line entries on my medical card :(.

plus as P2
DG505
Perkoz

Also how could I have forgotten the Harvard from my original list ?
Back seat out of Boscombe with a few touch and goes at Middle Wallop - what a lovely a/c to fly :)

[Planemike]

How many aircraft have you flown in (https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/612110-how-many-aircraft-have-you-flown-your-life-time.html)
More accurately it should read ""How many DIFFERENT aircraft types have you flown in...?? Pedantic, I know...!! 😀😀

[Expatrick]

HP Dart Herald
Bristol Freighter
Piper Cherokee
Cessna 172
B707
B727
B737(s)
B747
B757
B767
TriStar
​​​​​​​DC10
BAC 1-11
A319
A320(s)
Bae 146 / Avro RJ
Embraer 145
Embraer 195
HS748
HS125
Sikorsky S76
ATR 72
Dash 8 Q400

Not a bad mix for non aircrew, but some glaring omissions!

PS: Hoping to add the Hungarian Li 2 this year!

[Bryan Austin]

PIC
45 different Maule aircraft and a few hours ;-)...worked for Ray Maule for 16 years
MX7-160 N3110J
MXT7-160 N3116Q
MXT7-180 N6133A
MX7-180 N5662D
MT7-235 N3187Z
MXT7-180 N1013Q
MXT7-180 N1040R
MX7-180 N121PH
M5-235 N56450
MXT7-160 N9209Q
MX7-180 N5669P
MX7-160 N10240
MX7-235 N5655P
MXT7-180 N10515
MXT7-180A N197TW
MX7-160 N94KW
MXT7-180 N977MG
M6-235 N56256
MX7-235 HZ-NC2
M7-180B N180TD
M7-235 N3925Y
MXT7-180 N1049Z
MX7-180B N611BH
M7-235 N363FS
M5-235 N9174E
MX7-180 N10069
MXT7-235 N42269 (Georgia Forestry Commission)
M4-180V N55033
MX7-160 N141DF
M5-180 N5633U
M5-235 N379X
M7-235C N181MJ
M4-180V N3140R
MT7-235 N235
MXT7-160 N4157A
MT7-180 N228L
M7-235 N126DP
M5-180 N171GS
M5-180 N5658N
MXT7-180A N42782
M7-235 N5664N
MX7-180C N952DM
MX7-235 N56604
Fairchild 24.....about 35 hours
Cessna 180......1,000 hours, three different aircraft
Cessna 185.......1,000+ hours in three different 185's.
Stinson L-5...45ish hours
J-3...140ish hours
Champ......a few
Piper pacer, PA-22/20...140ish hours
Pazmany PL-1 (flew it from Georgia to Thermal California for a friend)...but about 30 hours total
Aeronca C-2....a few hours ferry flight from Alabama to Georgia
Beech Super 18.....a few
Taylorcraft....a few
Luscombe....a few
Citabria...a few
Husky...a couple
Super Cub...towed banners for a few years...several hundred
Cessna T-41
Piper Geronimo
Carbon Cub
Other Cessna's, 150's, 152's, 172's, 172RG, 182's, as well as and Piper variants, Tramahawks, Skypigs, 140's, 180's, taper wings and hersey bar wings, and an Arrow or two.
FLOWN IN...many others
Jets of a few variants,
L-10II
DC-9
CRJ
Cessna Citation
Grumman TBF
T-6
BT-13
BT-14
Marquat Charger
Cessna 120's/140's
Cessna 195
Travelair 2000
DC-3
Ford Tri-Motor
WACO open cockpit models of various models
Mustang II
Stinson 108
Aeronca Sedan
Beech 18 (tailwheel)
De Havilland Tiger Moth
T-18 Thorp (Kong)
Bellanca Cruiesair
Navion
Bell 47
C-130
UH-60
Howard DGA
Ercoupe
...oh and a couple UH-1's
Funny, I have yet to fly or fly in a Stearman!!
And all this just based off memory!

[AlphaMikeTango]

Mine as an Aircraft mechanic:
Aermacchi Am3C Bosbok
Aero L39
Aerospatiale SE3130 & 3180 Alouette II
Aerospstiale SA321L Super Frelon
Aerospatiale SA330 Puma
Airbus A320
Airbus A330
Airbus A340
Atlas C4M Kudu
BAe 146
Boeing 707
Boeing 727
Boeing 737
Boeing 747 & 747SP
Britten-Norman Islander
Casa 352L (Junkers Ju52/3m)
Cessna 172 Skyhawk
de Havilland DH87b Hornet Moth
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver seaplane
Denel Oryx
Douglas C-47 Dakota
Douglas DC-4 Skymaster
Edgar Percival EP-9
Embraer ERJ 135/140
Fairchild F24 Argus III
Fieseler Fi-156c Storch
Lockheed C130B & L100-30 Hercules
North American AT-6 Harvard
North American F-51D Mustang
Patchen TSC-2 Explorer
Percival Provost
Piaggio P166S Albatross
Sikorsky S55
Transall C160Z

[CoodaShooda]

As pax
Lockheed Electra
Vickers Viscount
DH Dragon Rapide
DH Tiger Moth
DH Chipmunk
Thorp T18
F27
F28
B727
B737
B747
DC10
A321
A330
A380

As PIC
C150
C150 Aerobat
C172
C182
Piper Tripacer
Piper Cherokee
Texan LSA
Jabiru 230

Simulator Time (courtesy of son)
BAE Hawk 127
F/A18 Hornet
F35A Lightning II

[ATSA1]

B707-436
Chipmunk
Sedburgh T21
Slingsby T31 (solo)
VC10 C1
HS125
Devon
Whirlwind
Andover
Gazelle
BAC111
Trident 3
Grumman AA5
K13
Hercules C3 and C1K
Wessex 5
Tristar 1
Hawk T1
DC3
B737-200
B737-300
B767-200
B727-200
Fokker 100
B737-400
Blanik
Robinson R22
Pegasus Microlight
Cameron Balloon
Sikorksky S61
Cessna 152
Piper PA28
Squirrel HT
Viking
Embraer 145
ATR42
A319
ATR72
Jetranger
F70
RJ85
Dash 8-Q400
B777-200
A321
A380-800
E195
A320
A340-300
A330-200
B737-800
Robinson R44
A340-600
E175
A330-300
A350-1000
B787-9

My first flight, BEA Airtours B707-436 G-APFH was on 25 July 1973. So thats nearly 50 years!