Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Many airlines are superstitious about registering an aircraft with the same "last two" as one previously involved in an accident, particularly as it was often just those two letters that would be painted on the NW doors.
An obvious example is BA's A319 fleet, where they use all the available G-EUPx registrations with the exception of Papa India.
BOAC went to the trouble of registering Britannia 102 G-ANBG. It became the rather more prosaic G-APLL.........
Another which did fly for a while was Westland S51 G-ANAL. Minimal repainting was required to convert this into G-ANZL !!