Why report aircraft type?
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Is that really an issue over there? In my 25 years working here at N90, I can't recall a single instance of an airliner coming in as one type, and turning out to be another. That's more likely to happen with one of the many general aviation aircraft we have buzzing around in VFR flight plans, but an airliner on a regularly scheduled flight plan?
"National Geographic Onboard Air Force One"
34:00 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd-yjm6uTYc
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His dudeness. I know (from my own extraordinary capabilities) that air traffic controllers are superhuman but even they cannot retain the entire world civil aviation registers in their minds!!
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To ensure the aircraft type is as per flight plan.
It certainly helps when you have an multiple aprons full of biz jets and you're trying to locate the one speaking to you and they don't know their stand number!