AK-47 | Crane Flight (Field-Tested)

The AK-47 | Crane Flight in Field-Tested (FT) is the working middle of the scale on this rifle. The rank is Classified, and the AK-47 | Crane Flight comes out of the Sealed Dead Hand Terminal.

What the AK-47 | Crane Flight looks like in Field-Tested

The base is white with a faint cream cast. Cranes are laid over it in graphite gray ink. The birds fly across the receiver and the dust cover, the handguard carries fewer of them, and the stock holds a scene of its own. The manner is Japanese woodblock print, a thin line with no fill, and small written characters are scattered between the silhouettes.

The second color is glossy gold on the front sight, the gas tube bracket, the trigger guard and the edges of the dust cover. One accent stands apart, a round red disc on the stock. The magazine is white, carrying the wing drawing, and the barrel and gas block are dark and unpainted. Against that backing the white, the gold and the red dot read from a distance.

Field-Tested takes the white base first: the lip of the handguard, the butt plate and the top of the receiver turn gray. Gold on the raised parts rubs back to bare metal. The fine crane lines break up before the larger areas spoil, so on the flat sides the birds are still whole.

Where the AK-47 | Crane Flight came from

Aresad built the finish in the Steam Workshop and credited the drawing itself to GhostRider. The submission went up on May 1, 2024 under the name AK-47 | Crane Flight V3, a third version. The finish reached the game only on March 11, 2026, nearly two years later. Valve's catalog numbers it 1425.

The author explained the subject himself. He took Japanese mythology, where the crane stands for immortality, wealth, happiness and love, and the legend of the thousand paper cranes: fold them all and a wish is granted. The wooden parts and some of the body he deliberately painted in metallic paint, which is where the gold sheen comes from.

What to check before buying

• the float, which shows how much shine is left on the gold parts;


• the state of the white base at the corners of the stock, as it grays before the rest;


• a name tag and stickers left behind by a previous owner.

Every copy carries the same drawing, and nothing is paid for a pattern here.

What the AK-47 | Crane Flight costs in Field-Tested

Factory New asks nearly four times as much and Minimal Wear roughly twice. The steps down are shorter: Well-Worn is cheaper by about a quarter, Battle-Scarred by about half again. The gap upward rests on the gold, which shines in the clean grades and is exactly what the money goes on.

Among Classified AK-47 finishes in this grade Crane Flight stands sixth of fifteen counting up: five below it, nine above. AK-47 | Point Disarray, AK-47 | Cartel and AK-47 | Frontside Misty go for much the same, within a fifth of each other. Only AK-47 | The Outsiders and AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge come in clearly lower, the first at about half the price, the second at about two thirds.

Getting the AK-47 | Crane Flight

Two routes exist: the Sealed Dead Hand Terminal, or a trade-up contract of ten Restricted skins from the same collection.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Crane Flight

The AK-47 | Crane Flight has a StatTrak version. Souvenir copies of the finish turn up as well, though no Souvenir packages were ever made for it: packages only ever covered tournament map collections. Those copies are built with the Souvenir-O-Matic, which puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on a normal skin from the inventory.

White under gold is a light ground already busy with a drawing. Dark stickers read best on it, gold ones merge into the fittings, and white ones vanish outright. For a craft in CS2 the handguard and the lower stock are free, while the receiver with the crane is better left uncovered.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested on the AK-47 | Crane Flight makes sense in cases like these:

• graphic art in the Japanese manner appeals more than military or abstract finishes;


• paying four times over for gold shine in Factory New holds no appeal;


• a light rifle is wanted for a terrorist-side loadout in CS2.

The gold is already matte in Field-Tested, and a close look shows it. Anyone who wants the shine itself should be looking at Minimal Wear.