Streetview in Flight (10.0) - 9/26/2024

This file is a collection of air transportation (in flight!) in Google Street View, including helicopters (military and civilian), airplanes (military and civilian), aerostats (blimps and the like), and UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles).
Each find is coded by color and icon type.

Each find can be viewed directly within Google Earth (version 6+) or viewed in Google Maps with a direct link from within the placemark.

Note: Google Earth, so far, does not save the zoom level of a street view find, so some finds may need to be zoomed in on Google Earth. Their proper zoom level is saved on Google Maps, so if you cannot see it on Google Earth, it should be visible on Google Maps. If not; the image is outdated, and I'll update it in a future version.

Note 2: Due to Terrain, some images will flicker. Please TURN OFF terrain (GE 6) or change Elevation exaggeration to 0.01 (GE 7+). Double click the icon or move around the image until the flickering stops.

Streetview in Flight 10.0.kmz (835.16 KB) | Last Updated: September 26, 2024

As of right now:
● 2171 total finds (65 Aerostat, 1867 Airplane, 232 Helicopter, 7 UAV)
● 84 countries, 11 territories, and 50 USA states + D.C.
● 332 Aircraft Types (261 airplane, 71 helicopter)
● 566 Airlines/Organizations (including 122 dysfunctional ones)
● 107 Military/Government Operators
● 138 Special Liveries

● 16 Airshows / Aerobatic Teams

● 12 Skywriting / Aerial Advertising
● 19 PTM (Prototypes/Test Flights/Manufacturer Owned)

Additional, but lower quality finds: [Currently: ~3250 finds]: Lower Quality Finds 3250.kmz (396.85 KB)
I'm not updating these in any way, so many of these may no longer be there

Question to the moderators: this collection is currently a Network link that pulls it's data (a static kmz file) from a separate Google Earth forum that hosts the file. When I release a new version, I update the file on that forum which the network link will then pull from. I don't know how long that forum will stay up (it's been limping along for years) and have been looking for a new place to put the static file.  In order for the network link to work, the file needs a url and it needs to always keeps the same name, even when I update the file. Do you know if this forum has that capability? Otherwise, if the host forum goes down, I'll need people to re-download the collection every time I release an update.

Hi spider, it's not possible to store the file here and link to it.

I'd suggest looking at Google Sites.  You don't need to create a public site to use the storage.  You can upload an attachment and it will be stored with the original name so that you can upload a new version with the same name when you've updated the file.

DropBox may work too, but I'm not too familiar with that.

I would not recommend using Google Drive, they make it difficult to get a usable link, and you can't upload a new version of a file and keep the same link.

Apr 15, 2015 8:11:34 GMT Noisette said:

Hi spider, it's not possible to store the file here and link to it.

I'd suggest looking at Google Sites.  You don't need to create a public site to use the storage.  You can upload an attachment and it will be stored with the original name so that you can upload a new version with the same name when you've updated the file.

DropBox may work too, but I'm not too familiar with that.

I would not recommend using Google Drive, they make it difficult to get a usable link, and you can't upload a new version of a file and keep the same link.

Okay, thanks for responding. Will look into Google Sites.


Also, old Google Maps just got turned off, which means I need to redo basically every placemark in this file. Ugh.

Also, old Google Maps just got turned off, which means I need to redo basically every placemark in this file. Ugh.

The links in your placemarks work for me in the new Google Maps.

Wow - first update in 921 days!

Before, the objective had always been to find as many airplanes, helicopters, and aerostats as possible. However, with the frequent SV updates, the huge amount of finds, how long it takes to update them, and how much imagery there is to cover, this is no longer the case. From now on, I'm only keeping the best finds, anything where the object is clearly visible without needing to zoom. I did however keep at least 1 find from each country, even if it did not fall under the "high quality" benchmark.

555 New Finds:
5 aerostats, 504 airplanes (445 civilian, 59 military), and 47 helicopters (26 civilian, 21 military)

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20 new countries/territories:
Albania, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ghana, Greenland (Denmark), Guatemala, Kenya, Laos, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Nigeria, Philippines, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Guam [USA], Puerto Rico [USA]

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63 new airlines/organizations (including 18 new special liveries):
Adria Airways, Air Arabia, AirBridgeCargo, Airbus Industrie, Air Canada Rogue, Air Greenland, Air India, Airlink, Airship Ventures, Air VIA, AIS Flight Academy, AlbaStar, Atlas Air, AtlasGlobal, ATSA, Aviolet, Bahamasair, Batik Air, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Binter Canarias, Boeing, Bombardier Aerospace, Cebu Pacific, Chautauqua Airlines *DF, Cobham Aviation Services Australia, Collings Foundation, Contour Aviation, Cutting Edge Helicopters, Elite Airways, Etihad Cargo, Firefly, FlySafair, Hokkaido Air System, HOP!, JAL Express *DF, Jin Air, LATAM Brasil, Lufthansa CityLine, Magnicharters, Mokulele Airlines, MoonAir, New Central Airservice, Olympic Air, PAL Express, Patagonia Flight Services, Peach, Pegasus Airlines, Save the Elephants, Searca S.A., Shenzhen Airlines, Solaseed Air, South African Airways, South African Express, Star Perú, Swiss Aviation Training, TAROM, Tex Sutton Kalitta Charters, The London Helicopter, Turkmenistan Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines, Windsor Flying Club, Zest Air *DF, Zip Aviation              *DF = Dysfunctional airlines

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24 new civilian aircraft types:
Airbus A320neo family, American Champion Citabria, American Champion Decathlon, Beechcraft King Air, Bombardier Global Express, British Aerospace Jetstream, Canadair CL-215, Cessna 185 Skywagon, Cessna Citation III, Cessna Citation Excel, Cessna CitationJet, Cessna Citation Excel, Dassault Falcon 7X, Dassault Falcon 2000, Diamond DA40, Diamond DA42, Embraer EMB-505 Phenom 300, Hawker 400, Let L-410 Turbolet, Mudry CAP 10, Piaggio P.180 Avanti, Piper PA-23, Robin DR400, Socata TB20 Trinidad

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12 new military aircraft types:
Aero L-39 Albatross, Airbus A330 MRTT, Alenia C-27J Spartan, Beechcraft T-44A Pegasus, Boeing RC-135, Chengdu J-7, EADS/CASA C-295, Hongdu JL-8, Ilyushin Il-76, KAI T-50 Golden Eagle, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, PZL M28 Skytruck

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7 new helicopter types:
AgustaWestland CH-149, Kamov Ka-27, Kawasaki OH-1, MBB/Kawasaki BK 117, Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King, Sikorsky VH-60N White Hawk, Sikorsky S-92

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18 new Military/Government Organizations:
Bangladesh Air Force, Bolivian Air Force, Guardia di Finanza, Hellenic Air Force, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Air Rescue 5, Midlands Air Ambulance, Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia), Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife (Quebec), Northrop Grumman Corp., Polish Air Force, Republic of China Navy, Republic of Singapore Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Netherlands Air Force, Travis County STAR Flight, Uganda People's Defence Force, United Arab Emirates, Air Force US Department of Justice

netlink does not work by me! (GE Pro 7.1.2.2041)
folder stays closed with red button after download wherever I try to refresh...): 

any ideas how to solve, or won't you attach collection as a simple kmz folder?

Hi syzygy,
Thanks for the heads up - if you're having issues, others probably will too.

It works on my end - do other Network links work for you? Or maybe the host I'm using was down.
The network link is pulling from this URL, see if that works: www.gearthhacks.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&act=down&id=35747

I'm also attaching the file as a .kmz to my topmost post, so you can just download it directly with no problems as well!

Current wishlist:

• A decent (or better) quality find in Wyoming, USA
• A decent (or better) quality find in Ecuador
• A decent (or better) quality find in Uruguay
• Antonov AN-225
• More historical planes (such as any from the Collings Foundation's collection)
  
• More aviation festivals/air shows
• Any planes in special livery
• A plane in DHL Aviation livery
  

If you can find an aircraft in flight in any of the above categories, I'd be super happy. They're pretty hard to find though, so good luck!

oh sorry, was only the usual "blocked URLs at the office" problem, however your recently attached, simple kmz works here too!

big work, cannot be done without strong interest, competency and a sip of addiction to browse the StreetView world!

thank you for the gratis attachment so I could check your great collection at last!

best!
g

Another update! (Nov 6th, 2017)
Added a "Top 10" category, which shows the 10 best finds in the collection. Was very difficult to narrow this down, as there's probably 50+ really good finds
Added a Key (to what the Icons and Icon Colors represent)
129 new finds, including re-finding some older, disappeared finds

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1 new country: Ecuador (also Wyoming, USA => now have all 50 states)

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14 new airlines (3 dysfunct*, 3 new special liveries)
Air North, China Airlines, Cosmo Airlines*, Fiji Airways, Island Helicopters, LAN Colombia*, MasAir, Niagara Helicopters, Panalpina, Servicios Aereos De Los Andes, Sriwijaya Air, Tiger Airways*, Trade Air, Vliegclub Flevo
Liveries: AeroMéxico Boeing 737-852 [XA-MIA] "Chrysler Jeep - 75 Anos" | AirAsia "Now Everyone Can Fly" | British Airways Airbus A319-131 "Olympic Dove"

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1 new helicopter type: Bell 407

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4 new Organizations/Militaries:
Australian Maritime Border Command, Cornwall Air Ambulance, Indonesian Air Force, Mexican Air Force

Working on another update; still trying to catch up to the massive December 16th update (only have Texas and California left to do). Should be out by the end of this month (maybe end of next week).

Sadly, I still haven't found a single DHL plane in flight.

Sneak peak at update:
Here's British Airways' Airbus A380-841 [G-XLEC]

Alrighty - finished this up date right before February. Next version probably won't be out until there's a significant imagery update by Google.

Version 4.2 (1/31/2018)
● +137 new finds
● Updated up to 1.31.2018 Imagery
● Removed many low-quality finds (over 350)
● Changed "Top 10" folder to "Top X", which will have 10-20 best finds

Added:
Countries: US Virgin Islands
Aircraft Types: Beechcraft Duchess, Cessna 180, Cessna 210, Embraer Legacy 600, Fuji T-7, Learjet 45, Short C-23 Sherpa
Gov. Org: Long Beach Police Department
Airlines: Air Southwest*, Alamo Helicopters, Braathens Regional Airways, Braathens Regional Aviation, Citilink, CityJet, Easter Jet, Etihad Airways,
Helicopter Flight Services, LAN Peru*, LifeLine, Malaysian Flying Academy, Mexicana de Aviacion*, Nok Air, PSA Airlines, Sky Regional Airlines, Vietnam Airlines
* = Dysfunctional/no longer exists
Special Liveries: Air Canada Express CRJ-700 "Ice Blue" | Air France Boeing 777-328ER "Paris 2024" [F-GZNP] | Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-800 "Spirit of Seattle" [N512AS] | Braathens Regional Aviation Avro RJ100 "Swedish Football Livery" [SE-DSU] | Delta Airlines "Skyteam Special Livery" | Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 "Nevada One" [N727SW]** | Uni Air ATR 72-600 "Bad Badtz-Maru" [B-17001]
** = found another instance of this plane (seen previously), this one is better quality)

Removed (due to bad quality/lost imagery):
Countries: Estonia, India, Laos, Montenegro, Jersey (part of UK)
US States: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Wyoming, North Dakota
Aircraft Types: Misubishi H-60, BAE Systems Hawk, Tupolev Tu-204
Airlines: Avianca Peru, Continental Airlines, Cubana de Aviacion, Executive Airlines, MasAir, Panalpina, Peruvian Airlines, SATENA, Star Peru, TACV, Tiger Airways

Hi, I think that was a tough job. Worth seeing, thanks!
Take care,
Pitter

Working on the next update. Cool new find:

The JASDF aerobatics team, Blue Impulse, performing the "Pierced Heart" maneuver

Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet ? I'm not sure.

Landing in Salt Lake City.

Attachments:

Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet.kmz (812 B)

Nice find willi1! Didn't have that yet, thanks!

New Update - April 19, 2018

No actual new Streetview Imagery since I last updated, but I added a bunch of old files I finally was able to find new links for (~30), as well as a whole bunch of new finds around the world

108 Total New Finds (105 airplanes and 3 helicopters)
2 New Countries: Uruguay (new!) and Laos (was previously removed for low quality)
9 New Airlines: AeroRescue, Boliviana de Aviación, Cape Air, Japan Transocean Air, Jet2.com, Jetstar Japan, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Star Perú, VivaColombia
3 New Civilian Airplane Types: Airbus A300, Cessna 402, NAMC YS-11
1 New Military Airplane Type: Gulfstream C-20
1 New Gov Org: Japan Coast Guard
2 New Special Liveries: ANA Boeing 787-8 "Dreamliner Livery", Japan Transocean Air Boeing 737-400 "Jinbei Jet" [JA8939]

No new airshows, but 3 additional Blue Impulse finds

Is this helicopter possibly new to the forum? (Prato di Tivo, Italy)

Attachments:

Transporter.kmz (792 B)

That is new, very nice!! Will add in next update (and credit you), thanks!

That's a Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama that does avalanche defense for the Prati di Tivoski resort

Lands at LAX

 

Attachments:

LAX.kmz (789 B)

LAX1.kmz (789 B)

Small plane over Pembroke Pines, Florida

Attachments:

Small Plane.kmz (941 B)

Thanks willi1 for the finds! Keep em coming!

Version 4.4 (5/18/2018)
● +124 new finds
● Updated up to 4.25.2018 Imagery
● Removed snippets from placemarks

Added:
Countries: None
Aircraft Types
Civilian Planes [10]: Bombardier Challenger 300, Bombardier Challenger 600, Cessna 150, Cessna 320 Skynight, Cessna 425, Dassault Falcon 20, Diamond DA20 Katana, Learjet 55, Piper Cheyenne, Socata TB10 Tobago
Military Planes [2]: CASA C-101 Aviojet, ENAER T-35 Pillán
Helicopters [2]: Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama, Eurocopter EC145
Gov. Org [1]: HM Coast Guard Shetland
Airlines [8]: ABX Air, Air Algérie, Air Asia X, Babcock Mission Critical Services Onshore, Branson Helicopter Tours, Europe Airpost, Hainan Airlines, IBC Airways
Special Liveries [1]: Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7H4 "Tennessee One" [N922WN]
Airshows/Teams [3]: Luke AFB Airshow: 75 Years of Airpower, Patrulla Águila, Thunder Tiger Aerobatics Team

Maybe that is already known, but I would like to know how to bring writing to the sky. A special device on the plane? Computer controlled certainly.




See in GM

Cool find with the Skywriting! It's hard to read, but I can make out the words "Neck" and "Hot". Looks like it's only one plane doing the "writing" in this case. Looks like dot-matrix skywriting, which is a newer method.

"It works just as you'd expect. The airplane(s) have computer controlled smoke generators, several to a plane, and put out puffs of smoke instead of drops of ink. It's exactly like a dot matrix printer, just lower res and bigger."
www.quora.com/How-does-dot-matrix-skywriting-work

A KLM-Aircraft is landing in Nice (France) an a Robinson R44 at Navarre Beach Park (Florida)

Attachments:

KLM Nice.kmz (934 B)

Robinson R44.kmz (922 B)

AIR CANADA Jet landing in Toronto and a jet landing in San Diego.

Attachments:

AIR Canada.kmz (848 B)

Landing San Diego.kmz (848 B)

Two Takeoffs from Stuttgart Airport (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Unfortunately far away.

 

Attachments:

Takeoff Stuttgart.kmz (716 B)

Takeoff Stuttgart1.kmz (703 B)

Parachutists and their transporter at Wanaka Airport (New Zealand)

Attachments:

Parachute.kmz (833 B)

Two landings in Boston

Attachments:

Landing Boston.kmz (942 B)

Come in Boston.kmz (860 B)