Best Aircraft reg EVER

[Hard-Drive]

My mate showed me a photo he took many years ago of these two parked next to each other...

[Mammasaid]

I learnt to fly at Tollerton in the ex Oxford Air Training School Piper PA-38

It had a hard landing which eventually killed it (not in my hands, I hasten to add), though I remember landing on runway 27 with a decent headwind on the numbers and being able to vacate left onto runway 21!

[eharding]

My old Pitts S1 in the original paint scheme before it went a bit John Deere up at Breighton...

[threespires]

Douglas Bader's Beechcraft Travel Air G-APUB
When I was 16 I got to fly it for about an hour above Madrid on the way to Malaga, before Bader got the plane.

[vrtrooper]

Edited by vrtrooper on Monday 1st July 21:15

[Ityre]

G-Huey from James Bond, I believe it was a captured Argentine helicopter.

[JuniorD]

I think this is what the OP was looking for

Edited by JuniorD on Monday 1st July 21:45

[ninepoint2]

C-17 taking the Queen to London after her death was a nice touch

[Tony1963]

I saw this one in and out while on Visiting Aircraft at Marham in the mid-80s. Robertsons Jam management visiting local farms.



Probably not allowed anymore.

[Dog Star]

Tony1963 said:

I saw this one in and out while on Visiting Aircraft at Marham in the mid-80s. Robertsons Jam management visiting local farms.



Probably not allowed anymore.

Beat me to it. Always been my favourite

[Tony1963]

Dog Star said:

Beat me to it. Always been my favourite

Changed reg in 2000 to LN-TTC.

Interesting incident, as G-OLLY:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/542...

[Jim H]

I always thought the reg on David Purley’ Pitts was memorable .

Edited by Jim H on Tuesday 2nd July 11:40

[Geneve]

FLY 7 Pilatus


James May

[silverfoxcc]

Dog Star said:

Beat me to it. Always been my favourite

Golly is fine A golly doll is fine it is the suffix that creates the problem...even the song just says golly

Edited by silverfoxcc on Thursday 4th July 00:59

[Eric Mc]

They also had this -

[wolfracesonic]

Are these numbers like private plates on a car, you pay for them, or pay to have whatever combination you wish, or is it just random and you get what your given?

[LimaDelta]

wolfracesonic said:

Are these numbers like private plates on a car, you pay for them, or pay to have whatever combination you wish, or is it just random and you get what your given?

They are normally sequenced, but you can buy an out-of-sequence or de-registered if you want.

[Geneve]

In the UK you can choose what you want - G - **** - so long as it hasn’t already been issued.
However, I’m pretty sure that once issued it can’t be transferred to another a/c.

Personally, I prefer regs that have the minimum number of awkward syllables - something like Mike-Mike-Golf-Golf as it makes RT transmissions easier and clearer, especially on busy frequencies.

[eharding]

LimaDelta said:

wolfracesonic said:

Are these numbers like private plates on a car, you pay for them, or pay to have whatever combination you wish, or is it just random and you get what your given?

They are normally sequenced, but you can buy an out-of-sequence or de-registered if you want.

Has that changed recently? Historically, the CAA have refused to re-issue de-registered marks to anything other than the aircraft to which it was originally assigned (i.e. went to a foreign register and came back). The CAA website still has this cited as policy:

The CAA said:

Historical, current and de-registered marks not available for re-issue

Any UK registration marks that are currently in use or have been registered in the past are not re-issued to a second aircraft to avoid any confusion. An individual airframe may have more than one registration mark in its lifetime, but a particular registration mark can only apply to one airframe.

Therefore, there are no historical registration marks available for issue (i.e. between G-AAAA and the current in-sequence range) unless it is the original aircraft that is being re-registered or restored to the UK Register. Generally an original aircraft can return to any of the UK registration marks that it has previously carried.

I vaguely remember that the CAA did try it, just once, and it caused such absolute havoc with their systems (i.e. made a dreadful mess of the set of yellow stickies on a whiteboard they use to manage registrations) that it was decided never to do it again.

Edited: Turns out there *have* been a few instances where registrations were re-issued - mostly where a wrecked aircraft was essentially rebuilt from new components - the old version appears in G-INFO with an 'X' suffix e.g. G-BJCB and G-BJCBX. In general though, I think the CAA will still say no.

Edited by eharding on Tuesday 2nd July 14:33

[eharding]

Geneve said:

Personally, I prefer regs that have the minimum number of awkward syllables - something like Mike-Mike-Golf-Golf as it makes RT transmissions easier and clearer, especially on busy frequencies.

Most of the good registrations have already been taken, but there was a trend amongst display aerobatic aircraft to have as many 'I' characters in the mark as possible, since less space used for the registration mark means more space available to slap sponsorship logos everywhere - the ex Brian Lecomber Extra 300 I used to punt around on occasions was G-SIII for example.