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Airbus A320

How to spot it

Look for a rounded nose, round engine nacelles under the wing, fairly tall gear and either small wingtip fences or tall curved sharklets.

The 737 has a pointed nose, a flat-bottomed engine and a short main gear; the A320 has a round nose and sits higher off the ground.

The neo has much bigger, rounder engines and always has sharklets; many older A320s have small wingtip fences instead.

The A319 is shorter: count the windows between the doors, and look for a single overwing exit (A319) instead of two (A320).

The A320 was the first airliner with digital fly-by-wire controls, flown with a side-stick instead of a control column.

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