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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 ...
The registration often denotes the aircraft type and maker. Some examples: HB-Axx two-engined aircraft from 5.7 to 15 tons, Aircraft over 15 tons due to shortage of Jxx. HB-Bxx balloons; HB-Cxx single-engined Cessnas under 5.7 tons; HB-Dxx and HB-Kxx other single-engined aircraft under 5.7 tons; HB-Fxx Swiss-produced aircraft like PC-6 and PC-12
The RCAF maintained aircraft such as the Lockheed Lodestar, Canadair North Star, Canadair CL-66, and Canadair CL-44-6 until, following the 1968 unification of the country's three armed forces branches into the Canadian Forces, long range VIP transport was carried out using a modified Boeing 707 designated as the CC-137 Husky and short range VIP ...
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.
A tail number refers to an identification registration code (letters, numbers, or both) painted on an aircraft, frequently on the tail. Tail numbers can represent: An aircraft registration number (civil aviation)
Twenty-one aircraft, including three RF-4E are on display at the Israeli Air Force Museum at Hatzerim Airbase in the Negev desert. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] F-4E Phantom II, IDF serial #327, Construction Number 3203, United States Air Force s/n 67-0346.
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 , i.e. Lucky Irish (serial 42-24622) of the 870th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group (lost ...
This aircraft, tail number 41-24159, was re-modified in 1943 for use as a presidential VIP transport, the Guess Where II, intended to carry President Franklin D. Roosevelt on international trips. [7] The Secret Service subsequently reconfigured a Douglas C-54 Skymaster for duty as a presidential transport.