Best Aircraft reg EVER

[LimaDelta]

eharding said:

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.

Ah fair enough, I must have misremembered that one.

[CRA1G]

[eharding]

LimaDelta said:

Ah fair enough, I must have misremembered that one.

My original edited - seems it's happened more than once, but in general the CAA won't do it without good reason.

[GliderRider]

This one amused me.

[Eric Mc]

Up until 1972 UK registrations (with some rare exceptions) were issued in a pretty strict manner. The rules were relaxed in 1972 so you began to get "specialised" and "personalised" letterings. However, the basic rule is that the registration must begin with the letter "G" followed by four letters.

I think they do still have some restrictions e.g. - the letters can't spell out rude or distateful words (which seems not to be the case in Finland )

[Geneve]

This one was hard to find

[tr7v8]

Tony1963 said:

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...

Ouch that would have been expensive!

[JuniorD]

Geneve said:

This one was hard to find

That would be perfect on a Tornado

[smallpaul]

[CRA1G]

[Krikkit]

FNAR

[silverfoxcc]

Eric Mc said:

Up until 1972 UK registrations (with some rare exceptions) were issued in a pretty strict manner. The rules were relaxed in 1972 so you began to get "specialised" and "personalised" letterings. However, the basic rule is that the registration must begin with the letter "G" followed by four letters.

I think they do still have some restrictions e.g. - the letters can't spell out rude or distateful words (which seems not to be the case in Finland )

Eric

Prince Wiliam of Gloucester had G-AWOG on his Piper Arrow