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Post by Jim on Apr 13, 2020 17:58:33 GMT
N number, call sign, registration mark. Depending on where you live may dictate what they're called. Nonetheless, we have them on our planes.
Did you pick yours? Did you let the civil authority pick it for you? Was it already on the plane when you bought it used?
For me, I applied for my N number with the FAA as soon as I ordered my plane. It was held in reserve for a year and I could renew my reserved number every year thereafter for a small fee. I did have to renew my number once because the plane took a little over a year to be delivered.
I chose N10JC because JC are my initials and 10 was the lowest number combination available to use with JC.
How about yours?
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Post by andy on Apr 15, 2020 2:38:57 GMT
N148K-----Already registered when I got the plane but went to the FAA database and found the Number was previously used on a Alon Erocoupe in the Detroit area until it was dropped from registry. If you have an access to flight aware you can track my flights using the N148K tail number. I am planing on flying tomorrow if the weather holds, and I as I often do once I land I track my flight on flight aware. I am amazed at how accurate the tracking is as to heading, airspeed and altitude only missing data is nothing is shown until you are 1000 ft off the ground so you can't see your landing/departure pattern and the time of flight is off by about 20 min or so. If you are into aviation and have down time it is fun to visit their website flight aware and enter your home airport code or a tail number and it will show you arrivals, departures and flight history of every registered aircraft in the world.
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Post by Jim on Apr 15, 2020 14:47:19 GMT
I use Flight Aware frequently to watch friends flying around or just when curious as to who is flying nearby. Great tool.
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Post by idahoa220 on Oct 13, 2021 0:30:24 GMT
We had reserved many years ago an N-Number (N686JE) in anticipation of one day building or buying a new aircraft. While we have owned several other aircraft, we never used the N-Number waiting for the new airplane. After ordering our A220 we discussed the N-Number with Rob who indicated we could use the number, however it would look odd due to the length of the number vs. the length of the fuselage.
We both did a quick search of the FAA N-Number database and ultimately reserved N86JE (shorter version) for the plane. The N-Number represents our wedding anniversary June 1986 along with our names Jenny & Ernie.
We still maintain the longer version for future use, the $10 annual fee is worth the opportunity.
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