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New Mon 18 Apr 11 08:22 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - Duncan
I had a top -down drive to Fairoaks Airport yesterday.

Whilst there I saw an aircraft with the "registration plate" M-ARTY. Is that a country code? Or is it the equivalent to a personalised plate?
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New Mon 18 Apr 11 08:27 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - Duncan
This is what it looked like.

www.airplane-pictures.net/image57935.html
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New Mon 18 Apr 11 08:35 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - R.P.
www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1

You can check out the owners of UK aircraft on here.


registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Inquiry.aspx


The US version of their register

registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Inquiry.aspx

M is the Isle of Man by the way.
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New Mon 18 Apr 11 08:36 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - R.P.
An aircraft with looks only its mother could love. Is Bangle designing aircraft now ?
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New Mon 18 Apr 11 08:45 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - R.P.
www.gov.im/ded/Aircraft/registeredaircraft2.xml

The Manx register. M-ARTY belongs to...:-

Creston (UK) Limited Munro House, Portsmouth Road Cobham, Surrey KT11 1TF United Kingdom

www.customcontrols.co.uk/brands/crestron-home-automation/?gclid=CPrbipbJpagCFQoa4Qod3GvgHQ
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New Mon 18 Apr 11 08:52 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - Zero
Says a man who drives the second ugliest BMW ever made.

That plane looks ok to me, rather like a Sharknose BMW
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New Mon 18 Apr 11 09:06 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - Perky Penguin
Pilatus make very fine aircraft. The RAF got stuck with a heap of junk called the Tucano, bought because we owed Brazil a favour (something to do with the Falklands I think.) We could have bought the Pilatus PC9 a superior product and, perhaps, cheaper.

Quote from an RAF Aircraft fitter

"Tucanos - terrible aircraft, not too bad to fly but the build quality was awful. I was on the acceptance team at Scampton and we had brand new aircrft coming in with lists of snags, some so bad they were sent straight back. I've spent the last decade on Pc-9's, better build quality and reliability.
The Pc-9 was the pilots choice of the two on the initial RAF flyoffs, but Shorts had to be kept in work for some obscure political reason."
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New Mon 18 Apr 11 13:30 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - Bromptonaut
As above M is the country designator for the Isle of Man. A relatively new innovation; the island's aircraft were on the UK (G) register prior the intoroduction of M. But I'd hazard a guess that M-ARTY was chosen for it's personal relevance.

The UK register was allocated strictly in order until the seventies when the national airline reserved G BOAC and adjacent marks for its Concorde fleet. After that out of sequence personal marks spread like a rash.
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New Mon 18 Apr 11 19:07 
 Country Codes on Aircraft - R.P.
North Wales Police were bragging about their new Eurocopter - there was a picture in the press - its reg mark is G-NWOI - my guess a tilt at its call-sign (November Whiskey 01).
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