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AF Serial Number 06-6161, a C-17A Globemaster III. 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 ...
CVG-1, Carrier Air Group 1. 12 December 1946, U.S. Navy Letter ACL 165-46. Some CVG-1 aircraft (those belonging to VF-14), while temporary attached to an Air Task Group, rendered their tail code as " ATG ", though "ATG" was never authorized as a unit code. The Group's tail code was changed to "AB" in November 1956.
4L-AAA to 4L-ZZZ. 4L-10000 to 4L-99999. Germany. D [ 3 ] 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 ...
Tail number: Description: Related article: 5-8208 Ilyushin Il-76MD Adnan 2: 2009 Iranian Air Force Il-76MD Adnan 2 accident: 5-8519 Lockheed C-130E Hercules: 2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash: 5-8521 Lockheed C-130E Hercules: 1994 Iranian Air Force C-130 shootdown: 6-9221 Bell 212: 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash: 15-2280 Ilyushin Il-76MD: 2003 ...
In most countries, unscheduled general aviation flights identify themselves using the call sign corresponding to the aircraft's registration number (also called N-number in the U.S., or tail number). In this case, the call sign is spoken using the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) phonetic alphabet. Aircraft registration numbers ...
A Van's Aircraft RV-7 displaying registration G-KELS. The G prefix denotes a civil aircraft registered in the United Kingdom. Geographic map of registration prefixes. 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.
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. Janet and Janet Airlines are the unofficial names of a highly classified fleet of passenger aircraft operated for the United States Department of the Air Force [1] as an employee shuttle to transport military, Department of Defense (DoD) civilians, and contractor employees to Special Access Program Facilities (SAPF).
The U. S. Navy's aircraft visual identification system uses tail codes and modex to visually identify the aircraft's purpose and organization. Carrier air wing (CVW) tail codes denote which fleet the air wing belongs; A for Atlantic Fleet and N for Pacific Fleet. All squadrons display their CVW's tail code as follows, regardless of aircraft type: