Each badge is a counter and a threshold, grouped into families. Standing plates are granted rather than earned.
Sign in to see how far along each one you are.
Recognition, not a count. A Standing plate is granted for something about you rather than earned by a tally.
First Light
Post your first spot. Only accounts admitted while the doors were still closed can light this one, and it cannot be earned by anyone who arrives after.
Granted
Here before sunrise — admitted while the doors were still closed, and proved it with a first frame.
Named sets rather than ladders. Each has a fixed size, so a plate here reads as how much of that set you have and not as a rung on the way to a bigger number.
Neo Collector
Post different types from TailzIN's NEO list. Which re-engined types count is an editorial list this product keeps rather than something the catalogue works out, and it counts types — an A320neo and an A321neo is two.
Three different NEO types.
Where your spots were taken, read off the airport on each one — which countries and continents they fall in, which oceans they reach across, and the one field you keep going back to.
International Spotter
Post from an airport in a country you have not posted from before. It is the AIRPORT's country that counts, never yours or the operator's.
Aircraft photographed in three different countries.
Different registrations in the log. Ten photographs of one tail is one line, exactly as it would be on paper.
FL010
Post a registration you have not posted before. Ten photographs of one tail is one line, exactly as it would be on paper, and an airframe TailzIN could not identify carries no registration and adds nothing.
Ten different registrations in the log.
Aircraft models you have photographed, counted by the model TailzIN resolved for the airframe.
Metal 10
Post a spot of an aircraft model you have not posted before.
Ten different aircraft types, counted by resolved model.
Airlines you have photographed. A carrier counts once, on the first tail you post of it.
Fleet 10
Post a spot of an airframe whose operator TailzIN can name. Each carrier counts once, however many of its tails you post.
Photograph ten different airlines. A carrier counts once, on the first tail you post of it.
Fleet 50
What you do for other spotters, rather than how much you post.
Group founder
Start a Spotter Squad and attach it to a hub.
Found a Spotter Squad.
Three badges the design draws are deliberately absent — they need a fact TailzIN does not store. A rarity family is waiting on there being enough photographs for rarity to mean anything.
Express Air
Post something from each of the four great regional families — ATR, Dash 8, E-Jet and CRJ. Families rather than types: two E175s and an E190 is one. The ERJ is a family of its own and is not an E-Jet.
Three of the four great regional families.
Generations
Post a 737 from each of three eras — Classic, Next Generation and MAX. It counts ERAS, so three MAX variants is one. An airframe resolved only as a plain Boeing 737, and the 737-200 Original, belong to no generation and count for nothing.
Classic, Next Generation and MAX — all three 737 eras.
The A Family
Post an airframe from each Airbus family — A320, A330, A340, A350, A380. It counts FAMILIES, so one A321neo covers the A320 family and a second one adds nothing; a variant TailzIN could only resolve as a bare A320 still counts for its family.
One from every Airbus widebody family, and a narrowbody too.
ETOPS
Photograph the SAME registration at two airports whose great circle crosses an ocean. This is the Transatlantic test narrowed to one airframe: having airports either side is not enough, the one tail has to turn up at both.
The same airframe, photographed either side of an ocean.
Whale Watcher
Post different A380 registrations. Tails rather than airlines: every new A380 counts, whoever flies it.
Ten different A380s.
Queen of the Skies
Post different 747 registrations, whoever flies them and whatever they are configured to carry.
Ten different 747s.
Dream Chaser
Post a 787 in a livery you have not posted a 787 in before. It counts AIRLINES rather than tails — ten of one carrier's 787s is one.
787s from ten different airlines.
Triple Seven
Post three or more DIFFERENT 777 registrations from one airline, then do it again with another airline. It counts the carriers that clear three, so twenty 777s spread across six of them moves nothing.
Three 777s each from seven different airlines.
Four Engines 4 Long Haul
Coming soon
Four different four-engined long-haul types. Coming soon.
Globe Trotter
Post from an airport on a continent new to your log. The continent comes from the airport's country, so an airport whose country TailzIN cannot place counts for nothing rather than for a seventh continent.
Three continents, one logbook.
Around the World
Post from an airport on a continent new to your log. The continent comes from the airport's country, so an airport whose country TailzIN cannot place counts for nothing rather than for a seventh continent.
Five of the seven continents.
Transatlantic
Have two airports in your log whose great circle passes over the North Atlantic. TailzIN draws the line between every pair of airports you have posted from and measures how much of it lies over that ocean — you do not have to have flown it, and a line that merely clips a corner is not a crossing.
Both shores of the North Atlantic.
South Atlantic
The same test over the South Atlantic: two airports in your log whose great circle spends real distance over that ocean, which in practice means one in Africa or Europe and one in South America.
Both sides of the South Atlantic.
Transpacific
Have two airports whose great circle crosses BOTH halves of the Pacific, east and west of the antimeridian. Los Angeles to Honolulu is four thousand kilometres of open water and does not count — the line has to reach an Asian or Australasian rim as well as an American one.
Both rims of the Pacific.
Equator Crossing
Post from an airport north of the equator and from one south of it. An airport sitting at exactly zero degrees latitude counts for neither.
Airports in both hemispheres, north and south.
Prime Meridian
Post from an airport east of the Greenwich meridian and from one west of it. An airport at exactly zero degrees longitude counts for neither.
Airports either side of zero degrees longitude.
Northern Exposure
Post from an airport above sixty degrees north — Iceland, Alaska, northern Scandinavia, most of Siberia. Each airport counts once, however often you stand there.
A spot from above sixty degrees north.
Southern Exposure
Post from an airport below forty degrees south — the lower half of New Zealand and Chile, Tasmania, the Falklands. Each airport counts once.
A spot from below forty degrees south.
Mile High Club
Post from an airport whose field elevation is five thousand feet or more: Denver, Bogotá, Mexico City, Addis Ababa. An airport with no elevation on file counts for nothing rather than as sea level.
A spot from an airport a mile above the sea.
Hub Hopper
Post from an airport on TailzIN's list of the world's great connecting airports — forty-seven of them, chosen for the traffic that changes aircraft there rather than for size alone. Each counts once.
Three of the world's great connecting airports.
Home Base
Post different registrations at ONE airport. Only your busiest field counts and the same tail twice counts once, so this is depth at a single place rather than the size of your log.
A hundred different registrations at one airport.
FL050
Post a registration you have not posted before. Ten photographs of one tail is one line, exactly as it would be on paper, and an airframe TailzIN could not identify carries no registration and adds nothing.
Fifty different registrations in the log.
FL100
Post a registration you have not posted before. Ten photographs of one tail is one line, exactly as it would be on paper, and an airframe TailzIN could not identify carries no registration and adds nothing.
A hundred different registrations.
FL250
Post a registration you have not posted before. Ten photographs of one tail is one line, exactly as it would be on paper, and an airframe TailzIN could not identify carries no registration and adds nothing.
Two hundred and fifty registrations.
FL500
Post a registration you have not posted before. Ten photographs of one tail is one line, exactly as it would be on paper, and an airframe TailzIN could not identify carries no registration and adds nothing.
Five hundred registrations. Very few get here.
Post a spot of an aircraft model you have not posted before.
Thirty different types.
Metal 70
Post a spot of an aircraft model you have not posted before.
Seventy different types.
Metal 120
Post a spot of an aircraft model you have not posted before.
A hundred and twenty types.
Heavy Metal
Post registrations of widebody types. Whether a type is a widebody comes from TailzIN's model catalogue, and this counts TAILS — the same 777 photographed twice is one.
Twenty-five widebody registrations.
Regional Hopper
Post different types the model catalogue files as regional. Types and not tails: ten CRJ900s is one, a CRJ900 and a Dash 8 is two.
Ten different regional types.
Freight Dog
Post registrations TailzIN has on file as freighters. Unknown is not the same as no — an airframe whose configuration nobody has recorded counts for nothing until somebody does.
Fifteen freighters, nose to tail.
Bizjet Hunter
Post different types the model catalogue files as business jets. Types and not tails.
Ten different business jet types.
Old Timer
Post an airframe that was thirty years old ON THE DAY you photographed it. The age runs from the airframe's delivery date to the date of the shot, not to today, so a scan of an old negative does not qualify on its own. An airframe with no delivery date on file counts for nothing.
An airframe thirty years old the day you shot it.
Fresh Paint
Post an airframe less than a year old on the day you photographed it — again delivery date against the date of the shot rather than today. A shot dated BEFORE the airframe's own delivery is a data error, not a new aeroplane, and counts for nothing.
An airframe less than a year old the day you shot it.
Made in Toulouse
Post different Airbus types. Types and not tails, and the manufacturer is the one TailzIN's model catalogue carries rather than whatever a data source wrote against the airframe.
Ten different Airbus types.
Made in Seattle
Post different Boeing types, counted the same way — by type, from the model catalogue's own manufacturer.
Ten different Boeing types.
Post a spot of an airframe whose operator TailzIN can name. Each carrier counts once, however many of its tails you post.
Fifty different airlines in the log.
Fleet 100
Post a spot of an airframe whose operator TailzIN can name. Each carrier counts once, however many of its tails you post.
A hundred different airlines. Most spotters never pass this.
Fleet 140
Post a spot of an airframe whose operator TailzIN can name. Each carrier counts once, however many of its tails you post.
Essentially every carrier TailzIN can name.
Star Collector
Post registrations flown by Star Alliance carriers. Registrations and not carriers — five Lufthansa tails and ten United tails is fifteen. An airframe whose operator TailzIN cannot name counts for nothing.
Fifteen registrations wearing Star Alliance colours.
oneworld Explorer
Post registrations flown by oneworld carriers. Registrations and not carriers, and an airframe with no operator on file counts for nothing.
Fifteen registrations from oneworld carriers.
SkyTeam Player
Post registrations flown by SkyTeam carriers. Registrations and not carriers, and an airframe with no operator on file counts for nothing.
Fifteen registrations from SkyTeam carriers.
Big Three
Post an airframe from each of the three big American carriers — American, Delta and United. It counts AIRLINES, so a dozen Delta tails is still one of the three.
American, Delta and United, all three.
Gulf Trio
Post an airframe from each of the three Gulf carriers — Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad. Airlines again, not tails.
Emirates, Qatar and Etihad, all three.
European Majors
Post an airframe from a carrier on TailzIN's European majors list: British Airways, Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, SWISS, Iberia and ITA Airways. However many of one you post, it counts once.
Five of Europe's seven flag carriers.
Organise a meetup inside a squad, with a time and a place to stand.
Organise a meetup.
Moderator
Granted by TailzIN to spotters who help keep the place in order. There is no way to apply.
Keep TailzIN in order.
