Identify by airplane characteristics

The basic configuration with H-tail, high wings and jet engine on top of the fuselage makes the Heinkel Volksjager unique in appearance. Only the Cirrus Vision and Eclipse 400 private jets come close.

This utility aircraft has a tall, almost straight vertical stabiliser without dorsal fin. The main gear has a single, wide strut connected to the bottom of the fuselage though. It is placed relatively close to the nose. The wings have no struts.

This is a development of the F-5 with double vertical stabilisers, from Iran. These vertical stabi­lisers are tilted outward, like on the F/A-18 Hornet. For the rest it still looks like an F-5 with its curved top of fuselage, flush canopy and double visible exhaust pipes. (photo Dara Zarbaf/WikiMedia)

The Iranians seem to have looked well at the Aviojet when they developed the Yasin: the resemblance is striking. Both have straight wings, a cruciform tail with a cut-off vertical fin and a tandem cockpit. The Yasin has two engines with the exhausts at the side of the rear fuselage. The air intakes are small D shapes. (photo: Mohsen Ranginkaman/WikiMedia

The Hamburger Flugzeugbau HFB320 Hansajet is quite a unique aircraft with its forward swept wings through the fuselage. Also the cockpit windows are typical, with the diagonal frame between front and side windows like on the Beech 400. (photo: Mike Freer/WikiMedia)

While most fighter aircraft have engines in the rear fuselage, even though the air intake(s) may be in the nose, the Hispano Saeta has two jet engines placed side-by-side in the nose, with the exhausts below the fuselage just after the wings. For the rest, the aircraft has no very typical characteristics.

The HondaJet is unique among the (small) bizjets as the HondaJet has jet engines mounted on top of the wings, like the VFW614! Also, the nose and cockpit windows are typical. For the rest it looks like a normal bizjet with T-tail, low wings and winglets.

This research aircraft was developed by Honda in the early 1990s as a predecessor of the HA420 HondaJet. The MH02 is as unique as the HondaJet with two jet engines mounted on top of the slightly forward swept wings.

The Chinese looked at Yakovlev for support in developing a new advanced jet trainer. Hence it is no surpise that it is a Yak-130 look-a-like. The main differences compared to the M346 and Yak-130 are the exhausts that extend beyond the tail, and the bigger main landing gear doors. (photo: Xu Zheng/WikiMedia)

The front of the Howard DGA-15 looks a bit like that of the DHC-2, including the gear struts. The high placed wings are braced by two struts and have rounded tips. A key feature is the tall vertical fin with rounded top and rudder from below this top to beyond the tail cone.