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SAM 28000, one of the two VC-25s used as Air Force One, flying over Mount Rushmore in February 2001. The United States Army uses fixed station call signs which begin with W, such as WAR, used by U.S. Army Headquarters. Tactical call signs are often assigned to a company sized unit or higher.
Commercial operators, including scheduled airline, air cargo and air taxi operators, will usually use an ICAO or FAA-registered call sign for their company.By ICAO Annex 10 Chapter 5.2.1.7.2.1 - Full call signs type C, a call sign consists of the telephony designator of the aircraft operating agency, followed by the flight identification.
The first Eighth Air Force aircraft to receive unit markings were the Spitfires of the 4th and 31st Fighter Groups training with RAF Fighter Command in September 1942. The markings were two-letter fuselage squadron codes located on one side of the national insignia and a single letter aircraft code on the other side.
ICAO code and call sign no longer allocated RCE Aerocer: AEROCER Mexico RCF Aeroflot-Cargo: AEROFLOT-CARGO Russia MC RCH Air Mobility Command: REACH United States United States Air Force: RCI Air Cassai: AIR CASSAI Angola RCO Aero Renta De Coahuila: AEROCOAHUILA Mexico RCP Aerocorp: AEROCORPSA Mexico RCQ Aerolíneas Regionales: REGIONAL CARGO ...
FM boosters receive call signs which repeat the entire call sign of the primary station, plus a sequential numeric suffix, like "FM1". Only LPFM boosters have multiple suffixes. The longest possible call sign in the United States (nine characters) went into use for the first time July 22, 2017, when KWSV-LP signed on booster KWSV-LP-FM1. [16]
Call sign Country Comments PIP Pilot Flight Academy PILOT Norway HRS Pursuit Aviation HORSEMAN United States 2016 [1] NCT Pete Air: PETE AIR Thailand 2014 [2] PRT Prime Service Italia: PRIME ITALIA Italy 2014 [2] PXT Pacific Coast Jet: PACK COAST United States Allocated in 2014 [3] BPH Phoenix Helicopter Academy: BLACK PHOENIX United Kingdom ...
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Russian nuclear icebreaker Arktika with call sign UKTY. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned call signs by their national licensing authorities. In the case of states such as Liberia or Panama, which are flags of convenience for ship registration, call signs for larger vessels consist of the national prefix plus three letters (for example, 3LXY, and sometimes followed by a number, e.g. 3LXY2).