🏆 Rare birds still to catch
Live Catch only0/25 caughtThe rarest airframes in the game. Catch one and you've made your year.
All 25 rare birds on this list are still airworthy.
Rare bird rules
Live Catch only. These rare birds and their +100 to +500 bonus points are scored in the Live Catch game from a verified live camera catch. In Sticker Book mode this list is your sticker collection and scores standard sticker points only.
Rare bird bonus points are applied once only. If you upload a different rare bird picture again on another day, it will score the standard points only (10 pts) + other standard point breakdown — no repeat bonus.
Display teams need the full team in the shot: Red Arrows all nine red Hawks, Blue Angels all six blue-and-gold Hornets, Thunderbirds all six red, white and blue F-16s. A lone team jet scores as a standard aircraft of its type.
A few still flying cargo, charter and firefighting.
Rear-mounted JT8D engines; few remain in service.
Still flying heavy cargo.
Heavy strategic airlifter; nose and tail cargo doors.
About 70 airworthy worldwide.
Rolls-Royce Merlin V12; around 50 remain airworthy.
Two airworthy: BBMF PA474 (UK) and FM213 (Canada).
Only two airworthy worldwide; BBMF's PA474 in the UK.
Front-line fighter in service.
STOVL variant with lift fan; RAF/RN service.
Around 17 airworthy worldwide.
RAF workhorse of the Battle of Britain; over 14,500 built with a handful still flying.
Active RAF memorial flight.
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight: a Spitfire, Lancaster and Hurricane flying together in formation.
⚠️ To qualify for 750 points, your photo must show a Spitfire, Lancaster bomber and Hurricane flying together in formation in the same shot.
Active RAF display team.
The RAF's famous red display team: nine Hawks in tight formation behind coloured smoke.
⚠️ To qualify, your photo must show all nine Red Hawks in formation. A lone Hawk, or fewer than nine, scores as a standard Hawk T1.
Active USAF display team.
The USAF demonstration squadron flying six F-16 Fighting Falcons in its signature delta and mirror formations.
⚠️ Standard F-16 will not qualify. To earn the bonus, your photo must show all six Thunderbirds F-16s flying together in formation in the same shot. A lone F-16 — even one painted in Thunderbirds red, white and blue — scores as a standard F-16.
Active US Navy display team.
The US Navy's demonstration squadron flying F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets in a six-jet formation.
⚠️ Standard F/A-18 will not qualify. To earn the bonus, your photo must show all six Blue Angels Hornets flying together in formation in the same shot. A lone Hornet — even one painted in Blue Angels blue and yellow — scores as a standard F/A-18.
Still flying Airbus parts.
Outsized cargo transporter carrying whole aircraft wings; the larger BelugaXL joined it later.
In US presidential service.
Two specially built 747-200Bs (SAM 29000 and 29100) serve as the US presidential aircraft; the call sign Air Force One applies whenever the President is aboard.
Still in German and Italian service.
Luftwaffe Tornado with variable-sweep wings; German markings and iron cross roundels.
⚠️ To qualify, your photo must show the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) markings — the iron cross roundel and German flag on the tail — on a Panavia Tornado. RAF or other nation's Tornados score as standard Tornados.
A few with airlines and as business jets.
The shortest Airbus A320 cousin — nicknamed "The Baby Bus"; only 80 were ever built and few still fly.
Around half a dozen airworthy, mostly in the USA.
Four-engined Second World War heavy bomber; only a handful remain airworthy.
In USAF service; visits RAF Fairford.
Aircraft type B52.
Still in airline service.
The longest Boeing 757 variant; passenger production ended in 2004.
Four flying Boeing parts.
The Dreamlifter: an enlarged 747 freighter that carries 787 fuselage sections.
A few airworthy, incl. Duxford's "Miss Pick Up".
Long-range flying boat of the 1930s; built in the United States as the PBY and in Canada as the Canso, and used for patrol, rescue and convoy escort across the Pacific and Atlantic during the Second World War. A handful remain airworthy today, including the UK-based PBY-5A G-PBYA "Miss Pick Up".
Around 30 airworthy.
Shipboard fighter with gull wings and a big radial engine; the Goodyear-built FG-1D was the US Navy version of the F4U-1D, and the type also served with the Fleet Air Arm as the Corsair Mk II.
Many still fly, incl. the BBMF Dakota.
Aircraft type DC3.
In USAF service; rare European visits.
Aircraft type F22.
A handful of Bf 109s and Spanish Buchóns still fly.
The most-produced fighter in aviation history, with around 30,000 built across its many marks; the type code also covers the Spanish-built HA-1112 Buchon. Several Bf 109s and Buchons remain airworthy today, flying with warbird collections in the UK, the US and Europe.
Over 150 airworthy worldwide.
Long-range Second World War fighter; thousands were built and many warbirds still fly.
In service; based at RAF Mildenhall.
Tiltrotor that lifts off like a helicopter, then turns its engines forward for fast fixed-wing flight; the V-22 serves with US forces and Japan.
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