Originally Posted by HEATHROW DIRECTOR
The tricky ones used to be Trans Canada Airlines which had fleet numbers on the doors instead of registration letters. Don't know if Air Canada does the same...
Yes, and as far as I know
all Canadian airlines use fleet
numbers. So do US airlines and although many fleet numbers do relate to the tail number, others do not. American (AA) has a strange alpha-numeric system and the various US Air Express operators have alphabetic fleet "numbers"
