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Post by rugbyref on Jun 11, 2022 21:07:50 GMT
Australia has just announced that they will use alphanumeric registrations.
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Post by christoff on Jun 12, 2022 7:02:25 GMT
Australia has just announced that they will use alphanumeric registrations. Can't wait for VH-SKIPPY3  |
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Post by zz on Jun 12, 2022 7:51:19 GMT
Sadly still only 3 characters after the VH-
From the site-
Aircraft registration marks in Australia are changing to include a new alphanumeric system but you will need to wait a little longer to reserve a mark.
We use the VH Australian Nationality Mark followed by 3 alpha characters. Soon we will be introducing a 3-character alphanumeric combination, for example VH-2AB, VH-A9B, VH-A22.
Introducing a 3-character alphanumeric system will mean the availability of more than 20,000 additional marks. This will give us enough marks for at least another 30 years. This supply maintains the current look of the registration mark and allows for sequential reservations and selective individual marks.
We will publish an update when the new marks are available.
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Post by Jeff on Jun 12, 2022 12:02:43 GMT
How close is the UK to running out of registration seeing as we also dont reuse them unlike other countries. Could it be possible in tbe future that we see GB- or G-AAAAB!!
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Post by zz on Jun 12, 2022 14:52:51 GMT
Having 4 characters after the prefix gives a lot more potential registrations.
Assuming a register only used 25 out of the 26 letters, (ie doesn’t use Q) then a register using 3 characters, like VH-xxx, has 15,625 possible registrations. Ignoring the fact that VH- re-use registrations.
4 characters (assuming using 25 out of 25 letters) gives a possible 390,625 combinations. So hopefully there won’t be any need for messing about with the register yet!
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Post by Jeff on Jun 12, 2022 20:03:49 GMT
So the next question is, how many have been used so far? ..... That should take a while to work out lol
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Post by graham on Jun 13, 2022 11:13:46 GMT
Almost impossible to say I would imagine Jeff unless you happened to work for, or have access to registration records. It was relatively easy until 1975-ish when everything on the British civil register was registered in order. Since then it's been a free-for-all.
My 1975 CAM runs to G-BCVC after which there are a few out of sequence reggies including G-BJCB, an HS125 owned by J C Bamford Ltd of JCB fame.
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Post by zz on Jun 13, 2022 12:04:12 GMT
I can let you know later!
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Post by zz on Jun 14, 2022 5:51:09 GMT
So the next question is, how many have been used so far? ..... That should take a while to work out lol So I used my phone a friend option. I asked my mate Rob who is the editor of the LAAS British register (he occasionally lurks on AFA and came to Middle Wallop and Chard with us). He gave a figure including the original G-E… allocations as well as any Empire allocations, such as G-AU allocated to Australia. The total number of G- registrations allocated is 62,456. I was surprised by this- I would have expected nearer 100,000. But what it means is, if all registrations had been issued sequentially- no gaps other than Q and no out-of-sequence- then the latest registration allocated would have been G-DZYF. EDIT- that figure is up until 25 May 2022 ! |
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Post by graham on Jun 14, 2022 6:25:35 GMT
Great detective work Phil, I too would have thought the number was way higher than that.
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Post by Jeff on Jun 14, 2022 7:04:25 GMT
Well done Phil, I expected more to be honest, long live G- 😊
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Post by dave on Jun 14, 2022 9:01:32 GMT
hi,
i'm just grateful that we don't re-issue registrations, the out of sequence is bad enough...
regards,
dave...
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