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For a very short period after the first set of national allocations, the US reggies looked just like everyone else's. A dash and four letters N-ABNA. I guess they then decided this wasn't you know, different enough.
And since we have descended into the really obscure, Ian Fleming was unaware of this change some 40 years later and has a pilot in one of his books calling "N-AKOI". I have absolutely no idea why I remember this, but there you are