Someone stole my tail number!

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Argh! I made a mistake and let N999NN expire before I renewed it. Someone beat me to it.

Sigh.
 
SkyHog said:
Argh! I made a mistake and let N999NN expire before I renewed it. Someone beat me to it.

Sigh.
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Good Lord, you want to have to say "Niner-November-November" on the radio constantly...that's a lot o' syllables.
 
News flash. Most airplanes come with tail numbers already attached, which you would know if you actually owned an airplane.:devil:
 
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SkyHog said:
Argh! I made a mistake and let N999NN expire before I renewed it. Someone beat me to it.

Sigh.
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um, a tailnumber expires? huh?

pardon me while my ignorance is showing....
 
Bob Noel said:
um, a tailnumber expires? huh?

pardon me while my ignorance is showing....
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Sort of ironic, really;

If you own a plane, the tail number is yours, with no expense, until it is de-registered or the number changed.

If you *reserve* a tail number, you have to renew the reservation periodically, or you lose the reservation.
 
SCCutler said:
Sort of ironic, really;

If you own a plane, the tail number is yours, with no expense, until it is de-registered or the number changed.

If you *reserve* a tail number, you have to renew the reservation periodically, or you lose the reservation.
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ah.

Thank you
 
Bob Noel said:
um, a tailnumber expires? huh?

pardon me while my ignorance is showing....
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You can reserve them for $10/year. About a month before it expires, the FAA sends you a postcard to renew. If you move in the meantime, the postcard may not reach you and the number goes back into the pool. If there is a number you would like, it is a good idea to go back and check occasionally on their website, it may just come up because someone exports a plane or sends it to salvage and doesn't assign the number to a new plane.
 
If you look up N555JD, you'll find it's registered to a Cessna 310R. That's John Denver's tail number, and was later assigned to a helicopter. The NTSB database shows Denver's plane as destroyed and the helicopter as substantially damaged.

That's not a tail number I'd want on my plane.
 
steingar said:
News flash. Most airplanes come with tail numbers already attached, which you would know if you actually owned an airplane.:devil:
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News flash: You can reserve a tail number. for a plane you want or a plane you are building. Some people do it for vanity. Others for other reasons.

It costs money. The reservation expires but is renewable.. for more money. Once its attached to an airframe with an airworthiness certificate it's "permanent" and no longer "reserved".

If you know everything, you should have known this :arf:
 
Doggtyred said:
News flash: You can reserve a tail number. for a plane you want or a plane you are building. Some people do it for vanity. Others for other reasons.

It costs money. The reservation expires but is renewable.. for more money. Once its attached to an airframe with an airworthiness certificate it's "permanent" and no longer "reserved".

If you know everything, you should have known this :arf:
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News flash. I knew already, and was ribbing Nick for his never-ending aircraft search.
 
I have a special folder at work for all the emails that are really crying out for a sharp answer. It's name is Douse. I've been looking for some icons for it. I imagine all sorts of methods of delivering a bucket of water or a hose... If I ever find it or create one (not likely) there will be plenty of exercise for it here, too.
 
As far as "vanity" tail numbers, I really REALLY want N000DF to just so I can send Dave Ramsey a photo of the result for following his information.

Unfortunately, not allowed to have a zero as the first number in the sequence. Just gonna have to find something else as creative that means the same thing.
 
I'd like N14AL Or some close variant of that, N14 is the airport I first started flying and AL is my initials, no matter what the tail number it MUST start with N14, Im flexible on the other parts, so no one steal it!:no:
 
I've been tempted to reserve N481NG (november-four-bing) for my RV-10, but I don't think my colleagues at Google would ever forgive me. :-)

Chris
 
The oddest one I've seen recently was N1KE. I'm sure you can guess whose plane that was.
 
When I was in the hunt for a tail number for my RV-12 I found several that were reserved and wrote the owners to see if they would sell them. No luck. Not sure why I posted this other than I am trying to make Peggy's Douser file. :thumbsup:
 
The foreigners get to have way more fun. When I told of seeing the first customer-flown DA42 into OSH (D-GERM) someone said they had seen a G-SPOT in the UK (which I think they had to change eventually). Then there was the OY-JET that went off the end of the runway into the water and was replaced with a new one, OY-WET! :rofl: Then just this week I saw a plane come up for sale that would be perfect for a halloween lover: SP-OOK. :rofl:
 
Well then there's always this one....

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doesn't anyone at Dornier speak English????
 
flyingcheesehead said:
The foreigners get to have way more fun. When I told of seeing the first customer-flown DA42 into OSH (D-GERM) someone said they had seen a G-SPOT in the UK (which I think they had to change eventually). Then there was the OY-JET that went off the end of the runway into the water and was replaced with a new one, OY-WET! :rofl: Then just this week I saw a plane come up for sale that would be perfect for a halloween lover: SP-OOK. :rofl:
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Saw ZK-SEX at Milford Sound in NZ.
 
When my dad and I were nearing the end of the build of the -7A, we started thinking about a tail number. We wanted N***CD (Chris(me) Doug(my dad)), but Cirrus Design had already reserved all of the N***CD that we wanted. :(
 
I have N182WT reserved...TW was already taken so WT was close enough. It's been reserved for at least 4 year now and it's only $10/yr.

There's a canadian 182 with the tail number C-FCKK. A photo of it and some quite humorous follow-up commmentary caused quite a stir when posted at a "puritan" pilots site recently.
 
flyersfan31 said:
Does anyone at Dornier know how to build an attractive plane??:vomit:
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I actually think that's a great-looking plane, mainly because of what it can do. It's pretty much an amphibious King Air, minus the pressurization. (Is there any pressurized amphib?)
 
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