Anyone know how aircraft registration prefixes came about? There doesn't seem to be any logical sequence in how they are derived. For example;
- VH - Australia
- VR - Hong Kong (pre '97)
- VT - India
- 9V - Singapore
- 9N - Nepal
- 9M - Malaysia
- PK - Indonesia
- PH - Dutch
- N - USA
- B - China
..... and so on.
I've tried to make a guess as to how some of these came to be, for example;
But as you can see, I really have no idea!!!
Can anyone shed some light on this?