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In the United States, all military aircraft display a serial number to identify individual aircraft. These numbers are located on the aircraft tail, so they are sometimes referred to unofficially as "tail numbers". On the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber, lacking a tail, the number appears on the nose gear door. Individual agencies have each ...
D-AAAA to D-AZZZ for aircraft with more than 20 t MTOW; D-AUAA to D-AZZZ (test registrations) for aircraft manufactured by Airbus at Finkenwerder; D-BAAA to D-BZZZ for aircraft with 14–20 t MTOW; D-CAAA to D-CZZZ for aircraft with 5.7–14 t MTOW; D-EAAA to D-EZZZ for single-engine aircraft up to 2 t MTOW
An aircraft registration is a code unique to a single aircraft, required by international convention to be marked on the exterior of every civil aircraft. The registration indicates the aircraft's country of registration, and functions much like an automobile license plate or a ship registration.
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.
United States: United States (lead ship) — — — Cancelled during construction. Scrapped on slip in 1949 [51] CV-59 Forrestal: Forrestal (lead ship) 1 October 1955 11 September 1993 37 years, 345 days Scrapped in 2015 [52] [53] [54] CV-60 Saratoga: Forrestal: 14 April 1956 20 August 1994 38 years, 128 days Scrapped in 2019 [55] CV-61 Ranger ...
An F-16 Fighting Falcon of the United States Air Force in flight. The United States Armed Forces uses a wide variety of military aircraft across the respective aviation arms of its various service branches. The numbers of specific aircraft listed in the following entries are estimates from published sources and may not be exhaustive.
The United States department of Defense was established in 1949, the old name Department of War was retired in 1947. In 1962 separate aircraft naming schemes were unified, but out of convenience many numbers carried over. For example, the P-38 Lightning, which also was used as the F-4 and F-5 for reconnaissance and FO in the Navy, became the F-38.
When introduced in June 1945, tail codes were assigned to individual aircraft carriers. Thus all aircraft based on a particular ship were supposed to carry the ship's code. As of August 1948, tail codes were no longer assigned to aircraft carriers but rather to carrier air groups, which in December 1963 were re-designated as carrier air wings.