|
Edited on Wed Jun-09-04 11:25 AM by LARED
BTW you managed to miss this tidbit at the end of the link you provided.
None of these rules was carved in marble, and exceptions were manifold. A notable example is a de Havilland DH-4 that earned the very first license in its duties with the Department of Commerce. It proudly wore N1, even though to abide by its owner's rules it should have been NS1. Because of DoC's practice of reassigning numbers after the sale, destruction, or export of an airplane to another, N1 showed up later on a government Northrop Alpha 2, a Ford 5-AT, a Lockheed 12-A, and a DC-3!
In other instances, a number might be borrowed temporarily by a manufacturer from an inactive company hack for use on a prototype until it had its own license, or a "blue-sky" number might be painted on a new model for photographic or publicity purposes.
Special-request registrations became popular, accounting for the many low-number- plus-suffix registrations, especially after World War Two. If one had the $10.00 fee, one could have just about anything, as long as it was available.
With batch allocations by CAA to regional offices for areal distribution, numbers became cloudy as a logical reference tool, indicating where airplanes were licensed, and not where or when they were built. Additionally, some batches were issued to large manufacturers, which explains how Douglas cornered the N30000 market.
Obviously you are left with two choices.
The N numbers that do not follow the current regulations are either
1. Legit aircraft with numbers what do not make sense because you do not understand the system
or
2. See number 1
Any other options make no sense. What do you believe the N numbers recorded in the database that do not match the present nomenclature are???? Fakes, covert commercial aircraft on secret missions dozens of times a day - everyday. If there is a cover-up why use N numbers that are OBVIOUSLY incorrect per DD?
What do you think this means????? What can it mean?????
Is the end of civilization at hand???? Will DD provide a conclusion???
Will liberals and progressive soon be carted off to the re-education camps??? Will black helicopters swoop in once they find out someone has cracked the N-number code?
Stay tuned boy and girls. as I'm sure the show will continue.
|