February 2026 Tailstrike Aircraft Update

230 New Aircraft Added to Tailstrike

We're excited to announce that Tailstrike has added 230 new aircraft, bringing the total fleet to 848 persistent, real-world registrations. This includes 35 new freighter aircraft, just in time for the Tailstrike Memphis Fly-In event on VATSIM.

Total Aircraft

• Total aircraft: 848
• Freighter: 85
• Military: 26
• Special: 13
• GA: 84
• Airlines: 124

The first retro aircraft on Tailstrike

We're excited to announce we've added 11 retro aircraft to Tailstrike!

• F-GNII — Air France A340-300
• F-GLZH — Air France A340-300
• N9039U — United Airlines B737-200
• C-FYLG — Air Canada A340-300
• C-FDRO — Air Canada A340-300
• G-VFAR — Virgin Atlantic A340-300
• G-VSUN — Virgin Atlantic A340-300
• G-VWIN — Virgin Atlantic A340-600
• G-VRED — Virgin Atlantic A340-600
• PH-KCA — KLM MD11
• PH-KCI — KLM MD11

And this is just the start of the throwback registrations. We will continue to add real-world retro aircraft to Tailstrike in the future.

Notable Additions:

• N225NE — Boeing 767-323ER (B763), Omni Air International, KBED
  • Official aircraft of the New England Patriots, just in time for Super Bowl LX.
• N747BC — Boeing 777747-4J6(LCF) Dreamlifter (BCLF), Boeing Corporation, KPAE
  • Boeing's converted 747 is now available at Paine Field.
• F-GXLO — Airbus A330-743L Beluga XL (A337), Airbus, LFBO
  • We've added 4 Airbus Belugas, all available at Toulouse.
• C-GLWS — Boeing 737 MAX 8 (B38M), WestJet, CYYC
  • One of 25 new Boeing 737 MAX 8's added in this update.

Military aircraft

We've added some more military and government aircraft, including:

• 14+05 — Bombardier Global 6000 (GLEX), German Air Force, EDDK
• 16+01 — Airbus A340-313 (A343), German Air Force, EDDK
• 15+04 — Airbus A321-231 (A321), German Air Force, EDDK
• 22-001 — Boeing 747-8B5 (B748), Government of South Korea, RKSI
• 142803 — Bombardier CT142 Dash 8 (DH8A), Canadian Air Force, CYWG
• G-SCTR — Piper PA-31 Navajo (PA31), HM Coastguard, EGPK
• G-HMGH — Beechcraft B350 Super King Air (B350), HM Coastguard, EGNT
• 2406 — Airbus A330-202MRTT (A332), Saudi Royal Air Force, OERK

General Aviation

We added several new private aircraft:

• N8244L— Beechcraft Starship (STAR), PADU
  • One of two Starships included in this update
• N337B — Cessna T337C Skymaster (C337), KOSH
  • One of two Skymasters added
• N769JV — Kodiak 100 (K100), KNQX
  • The first Kodiak aircraft on Tailstrike
• N523KA — Cirrus SR22T-GTS G6 Carbon (SR22), KSDL
  • One very slick Cirrus SR22
• N324MN — Icon A5 (A5), KAST
  • Water landing approved
• T7-ZEM — Daher TBM 850 (TBM8), LIRP
  • Another high-powered turboprop

These are just the highlights from this massive update. For the full list of new aircraft, click below:

Full list of new aircraft here

Once again, a huge thanks to the community for flying and suggesting aircraft on Tailstrike! And a big thanks to community member Aaron1362041 for helping compile this list.

To submit an aircraft suggestion for future updates, comment in the #aircraft section on the official Tailstrike Discord server, or send an email to team@tailstrike.io.

Happy flying!