UK register question

[Jeff]

Last night while flicking through utube I came across a clip about the history of radio controlled models. In the clip from the 30s/40s there was a model with the registration G-FHEW..... This for some reason struck me as strange. Back in those days there were no out of sequence registrations and we had progressed from the early G-E*** to G-AAAA and so on, I can find no trace of aircraft registered G-F*** before out of sequence become the norm (things were simpler back then lol). So the question is, we're model aircraft given registrations back then similar to the toy balloons in the 70s..... Or was it just the owner initials 🤔

[lordevanelpuss]

I tried G-FHEW in GINFO but it didn't compute so maybe it was a fictitious registration made up of the owner's initials. As well as the origial G-E*** that came before the main G-A*** series for the UK, you also had G-C*** for Canada before it got CF- and G-AU was the original Australian regiatration pre VH-.

[dave]

hi,
i would say in this particular case it was possibly the builders initials, but from memoury everything about the models was very accurate, markings especially, note a model just before FHEW, marked as EBMB which was a Hawker Cygnet, and the model looked like a Cygnet.

stay safe,
regards,
dave...

[cornwall01]

Hi

Just for information some of the early British airships were registered in the G-F series such as the R101 which was G-FAAW.

Regard.

Ray