Aviation geek alert

Airline booking sites may tell you the type of aircraft slated to operate your flight, but they won’t provide the actual registrations of specific planes. However, when you’re staring out the terminal window you can research that tail number. Here’s some required reading for plane-spotters everywhere:

❚ Airfleets.net

❚ Airport-Data.com

❚ AviationDB.com

❚ FlightAware.com

❚ Flightradar24.com

❚ PlaneLogger.com

❚ Planespotters.net