Airliners.net is an aviation

Aviation

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 website founded by Johan Lundgren, Sweden

Sweden

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, in 1997, evolving from his previous Pictures of Modern Airliners site started in 1994. On 27 July 2007, it was announced that Airliners.net had been acquired by Demand Media

Demand Media

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, a company based in Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

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, United States.

The site features a large photo database

Database

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, discussion forums

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, a chat room

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, and an aircraft history and information section. It claims to be the world's largest aviation website with over three million page views from 200,000 individuals daily,
Airliners.net was created by Johan Lundgren in 1994, as an airliner database known as Pictures of Modern Airlines.