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The serial would not be allowed to be less than four digits (for example B-45 serial number 47-007 was marked 7007), but there was no upper limit (for example YP-59A 42-108783 was marked as 2108783). When the original fiscal year of a serial became ten years earlier than the current fiscal year, the tail number was often prefixed with a zero ...
This list is only of aircraft that have an article, indexed by aircraft registration "tail number" (civil registration or military serial number). The list includes aircraft that are notable either as an individual aircraft or have been involved in a notable accident or incident or are linked to a person notable enough to have a stand-alone Wikipedia article.
The U.S. Navy introduced the identification system of tail and wing letter codes for its aircraft in July 1945. This system was intended to replace the set of geometrical symbols employed for the similar purpose since January 1945.
The small digits indicate the fiscal year (FY) the aircraft was ordered. The large digits are the last three digits of the aircraft's serial number. [1] [2] USAF fleet of C-130J with different tail-coding design, from the "RS" code indicating that the aircraft is stationed at Ramstein, to fin flashes indicating that the planes belong to ...
The patterns or themes varied; some were designated at the Air Force level, some at the Command level and others down at Group or squadron level. As in Europe, geometric shapes and colors were used as were letters, numbers and variations based on the RCN or serial number last three or four digits. Some pre-war bands and stripes were reinstated.
a group of three to five characters, which characters can be a combination of capital letters in Romancharacter and/or Arabic numbers Marshall Islands: V7 [3] V7-0001 to V7-9999 Martinique: F-O [15] Outside mainland France is F-OAAA to F-OZZZ [e] [15] Mauritania: 5T [3] 5T-AAA to 5T-ZZZ Mauritius: 3B [3] 3B-AAA to 3B-ZZZ Mexico: XA plus ...
Number built Serial number(s) Notes XP-47 1 40-3051 Prototype; canceled during construction XP-47A 1 40-3052 Prototype; canceled during construction Total XP-47, XP-47A 2 XP-47B 1 40-3052 (serial number transferred from abortive XP-47A) Prototype Total XP-47B 1 P-47B-RE 171 41-5895/6065 41-5938 converted to XP-47F; 41-6065 converted to XP-47E
United States military aircraft serials, the serial numbers used to identify individual military aircraft; USAAF unit identification aircraft markings, an identification code to identify the unit to which U.S. aircraft are assigned