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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.
A letter denoting the group was painted on the upper third of the tail fin, with a square symbol in the center, and an aircraft identifier, known as the "victor number," in the lower third. Aircraft commonly used their tail identifiers as radio voice calls ( call signs ), i.e. Lucky Irish (serial 42-24622) of the 870th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb ...
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, for example, 0-16717 instead of 16717 for UH-1H fiscal serial 66-16717. This was for disambiguation purposes, to avoid confusion with tail numbers for later fiscal years.
May 2007 photo of the Boeing RB-52B-5-BO Stratofortress 52–005 with tail colour for the Yellowtails Squadron – 330th BS/93rd BW. Initially retired to Davis-Monthan AFB in February 1966, was used as a maintenance trainer at Lowry Technical Training Center until April 1982.
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 ...
Boeing WB-47E-60-BW Stratojet tail number 51-2417 of the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flying an operational mission from McClellan AFB, California. Retired on 12 Sep 1969. B-47 Pilot training at Wichita AFB, Kansas – Air Training Command, 1951
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range, subsonic, jet-powered, strategic bomber operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since 1955. The B-52A first flew in 1954, and the B model entered service in 1955. A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962.
On 29 March, a B-52C (tail number 54-2676) retained by Boeing and used for tests as JB-52C, crashed during a test flight by Boeing from Wichita, Kansas. Two of the four crew on board died. The aircraft crashed near Skiatook, Oklahoma, about 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Tulsa, Oklahoma.