Aviation Number Plates.

[langleybaston]

Sorry if this has been visited before, but I saw

V1PHS

on the A1 today ..... ex Harrier perhaps?

Also SKY80Y at a Finningley Open Day, and the then head of the Mobile Met. Unit had MMU1.

[ex82watcher]

In the car-park at LATCC,I often saw a car with a reg.of ATC plus a few numbers.

[sharpend]

Mine is VC10AFC. Many of those ex No 10 Sqn have VC10 in their number. For example, ex Nav Boss has VC10NAV & there is VC10 PLT, VC10FLY & VC10 ENG. etc.

[treadigraph]

I do hope nobody has CRA 5H...

[MPN11]

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M25 near Heathrow, 2016.

No, Constable ... I was in a National Express coach, LGW-LHR, at the time.

[Sideshow Bob]

A certain ex Herc and E-3D Nav has C130NAV

[Sloppy Link]

There are rules against using the letters in that manner. If pulled, the courts can take the number off you, it also is an instant attractor to Traffic.

[charliegolf]

There are rules against using the letters in that manner. If pulled, the courts can take the number off you, it also is an instant attractor to Traffic.

Not round these parts. People get away with whatever they want.

CG

[Vzlet]

Not the UK reg, but the one in the window, from North Carolina. "Vzlet" is Czech for "takeoff". (Occasionally adopted as a username!)

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[SATCOS WHIPPING BOY]

Brize circa 1990 I remember one of the cars on the patch near me had the reg A 10 NAV

[NutLoose]

https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/630142-vc10-aar.html

[Willard Whyte]

E3SUX used to be available - I almost bought it four years ago. Any disgruntled E-3 aircrew not willing or able to make the trek up north could always go for E7SUX (£399).

[Baldeep Inminj]

About 30 years ago I was waiting to cross a junction in the centre of Lincoln, when a Rolls/Bentley (not sure which) wafted past wearing the plate '1 RAF'. Very impressive - always remembered that.

I have seen a Porsche 911 with 'V1 V2 R', and at Shawbury there was - maybe still is - a bootie pilot with 'FLY RM' on his car.

Best plate I ever saw was not aviation related. At a carshow there was an original Lamborghini Countach with a front plate which was 'T13VOM'. It took me a minute to get it - when you see it behind you in the rearview mirror, it reads 'MOVEIT'.

[Equivocal]

Saw this one in the hotel car park at Gatwick.

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[WASALOADIE]

Mine is XL04DYO Shows as X L04DY 0

:)

[sudden twang]

Saw BAN163L adjusted to BA NIGEL it was on a car saying For Sale £3500 with registration.
Some wag added £4000 without registration 😂

[TRENT210]

I was bored one night and started searching aviation related plates and found this for £250. Couldn’t resist buying it. (I don’t even work for the company)

Less than 24 hours later an engineer offered me £500 and the dad of a FA offered me £750.

Im greedy so I kept it hoping Phil Meeson or Steve Heapy might want it. Anyone friends with them ?:}
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[retreating blade]

Not aviation related but..........

Seen in a village west of Aberdeen over 20 years ago:
K9 CUM

[Cat3508]

Once came upon a vessel named "IVNIC8"

[bluepilot]

Didn’t Fiona Richmond have the plate FU2 ?

[Thax]

My last type was the Agusta Westland (now Leonardo) A109LUH - wife bought me '109LUH' for my last birthday.

[Jump Complete]

I was bored one night and started searching aviation related plates and found this for £250. Couldn’t resist buying it. (I don’t even work for the company)

Less than 24 hours later an engineer offered me £500 and the dad of a FA offered me £750.

Im greedy so I kept it hoping Phil Meeson or Steve Heapy might want it. Anyone friends with them ?:}
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It’d certainly look good on PM’s 15 year old Focus!

[Flying Hi]

There's currently a very nice white Range Rover sporting HOR 5 E.
Jockey, trainer, who knows.

[milzibkit]

I wonder if the owner of P1 LOT frequents this forum?

[ShyTorque]

Someone at a local flying club fitted his Jag with the “almost, but not quite” plate D1 LOT. He put in a black nylon attachment bolt below the “D”, so that it almost looked like a “P”.

Unknown to him, someone at the club got out a roll of black tape...when he drove off the rear plate had been changed to read “P1LOCK”.

[toratoratora]

F4 JET seen at RIAT in 2019

[Tankertrashnav]

Sitting in the crew room reading Exchange and Mart around 1974 I saw 111 ACE advertised for £100 (on a moped, as I think you had to actually buy the vehicle at that time). I did think of buying it and then ringing 111 up (at Wattisham I think) and seeing what offers I could get, but of course I never did. I wonder where that one ended up.

[Fatjoff]

When I was doing my air traffic training at Shawbury in '83, one of my fellow trainees had the number plate ending in RAF.

But he was RN!

[ShyTorque]

No aviation connection, but I sold my fully serviceable moped with LCH231 years ago for £15. It was later fitted to a VW Beetle and now resides on a SAAB 9-3. I’ve often wondered how much it changed hands for.

[TLDNMCL]

Brize circa 1990 I remember one of the cars on the patch near me had the reg A 10 NAV
Yes, I remember that very clearly!

[Barksdale Boy]

Fiona Richmond - a blast from the past! Saw a Tesla with the registration ECAR this evening.

[Commanche 250]

Remember seeing HI 2 ATC westbound on the M27 a few years ago, and again in the SRG Gatwick car park.

[Equivocal]

Not aviation-related but overtaken by a Tesla S this evening with reg 1ON.

[Nimman]

An Engineering Officer I knew bought the plates J3NGO and S3NGO. When he was still a J Eng O and turned up to work in the S3NGO his S Eng O wasn't very happy.

[langleybaston]

Which leads inevitably to

P8NGO ............. probably not sought after.

[srjumbo747]

Any pilot I’ve known who has an aviation related number plate is normally the sort of chap who should really have WAN K3R
because they normally are.

[ShyTorque]

Any pilot I’ve known who has an aviation related number plate is normally the sort of chap who should really have WAN K3R
because they normally are.

Considering your username, that’s rather ironic! :E

[srjumbo747]

Ha ha ha! Indeed but the difference is that I don’t go parading around showing off but it’s a very good point well made!
Xx

[ShyTorque]

Ha ha ha! Indeed but the difference is that I don’t go parading around showing off but it’s a very good point well made!
Xx

Good that you also see the funny side :ok:

[king surf]

SFO4EVER
You can keep your shorthaul command ,Written underneath !!
Does not take a genius to guess which company they work for.

[Stockportcounty]

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[ShyTorque]

I don’t like KFC.

[Teamchief]

Also not aviation related but I remember a car that used to cruise around Stamford with the registration XOI108 which seemed innocent enough until read in your rear view mirror!

[treadigraph]

Teamchief, in the 1980s there was a Porsche registered BOL 10X, I remember seeing it on the A3 while crossing the Hog's Back...

[Old-Duffer]

Seen on the M40 near Weston on the Green: PJI1 and near the local shooting club: 12GUN, whilst near Northampton: A51FLY.

I had a sticky patch on the bumper of my Capri 2.8i which said: 'Jet Noise - The Sound of Freedom' - RAF police 'advised me' to take it off.

It's a pity that 'Q' is used for temporary registrations & overseas exports or else there would be a huge market in '???SQN'

Old Duffer

[Tooheys]

Staff carpark at brisbane terminal has a Audi with LOW747 and a small smartcar with E4T M3, another smartcar is painted in The colours of dukes of hazard general lee (looks quite flash)
theres also a bmw with BEAMER and a few months back I parked next to RUP 14A which I presumed might belong to a Garuda employee.
Considering that the authorities charge more than the cost of registration and insurance for personal plates in Queensland one would have to be pretty careless with their cash or have a need to be noticed.

[woptb]

Whilst working for Jet2,when it was still Channel Express. One of the captains had L188 FLY. How are you Andy?

[57mm]

243 RAF was on a Trappers car at Cranditz.

And OGO 2L was on a DBS.

[greycoat]

slightly off topic, but a few years ago just off Cheyne Walk alongside the Thames was a property with two cars parked next to each other on the drive, one a Rolls Royce the other an Aston Martin and the number plates were 2B and NOT 2B

[Webby737]

There's an aircraft engineer thats been running around here with DC10 ENG.

[Mozella]

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Plates are a lot easier in the U.S. Here are two of mine. In the state of Alabama you can get your choice (within limitation) of custom letters/numbers or a specialty plate which might be related to your military service, or some other organization. But unfortunately you can't combine a custom plate with a specialty plate. We even celebrate our invention of the tooth brush. Had it been invented elsewhere it would be called the teeth brush.

[MPN11]

Although here you can pay £250 for a specific number, it’s not a very exciting game. You get Jnnnnnn. However, if you have a huge amount of cash to waste, and a small penis, you might be able to acquire at an auction something like Jnn ... which would set you back £nn,nnn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_the_Channel_Islands#Special_p lates

[Hydromet]

Father of a friend, some years ago, inherited a car with the number plate '1'. not sure what it would be worth, but I reckon you'd be talking 7 figures just for the plate. I believe the plate was once owned by the first chairman of Trans Australia Airlines.

[Jaysi]

On the first day of the new "W" registrations all those years ago, went on line to see if W1 WOL had been sold...it hadn't. Got the paperwork somewhere.

[Jaysi]

When on the staff at Brawdy in the early 90s I bought a used Porsche 944S convertable that came with some sort of 944 plate. One day the studes swopped it front and back with PEN1S...it's a fair cop:D

[Willard Whyte]

Nowt to do with aviation, I recall seeing O U 51LLY on a car in Roehampton a few years ago. It did make Oi larf.

[36050100]

I saw a 911 with the reg KN03END adorned with some strategically placed black bolt heads. It would probably have been in 2003/4 but from checking at gov.uk, seems to be bp longer assigned.

[downsizer]

Nowt to do with aviation

Doesn't matter in this forum dude....

[Bonkey]

When on the staff at Brawdy in the early 90s I bought a used Porsche 944S convertable that came with some sort of 944 plate. One day the studes swopped it front and back with PEN1S...it's a fair cop:D

That was a genuine plate on a Porsche a few years ago in Hertfortshire, used to often see it around the Royston / Duxford area. However, I think it was PEN15 as opposed to the "S" on the one you mentioned.

[dixi188]

Whilst working for Jet2,when it was still Channel Express. One of the captains had L188 FLY. How are you Andy?
Was that AE?
Don't remember that one but D. Maxxxxx had L100FLY and PJ had FLY2IT.

[goofer3]

That was a genuine plate on a Porsche a few years ago in Hertfortshire, used to often see it around the Royston / Duxford area. However, I think it was PEN15 as opposed to the "S" on the one you mentioned.
It was Steve Parrish, he of 2 wheels.What is the story behind the registration number on your car?

I’ve got two registration plates, PEN15 and 60CK. For dirty minded people, these appear to say something… They were originally purchased when I was married to stop my wife driving my cars.

[Tashengurt]

I'm sure there's an ex FAA and RAF F4 Nav with 'F4 NAV' or similar in the St Andrews area?

[Minnie Burner]

Just round the corner from BRNC:

CRA8S

Brave?

[muppetdodger]

Not long ago saw a Porsche on the M4 with CO51CAN which was very cool. Also saw a Rangie or Disco with GUM800T on it.

[langleybaston]

Porsche Germany c. 1990:

BO [something something] 007. Definitely taken as Bond. And yes, it overtook me.

NFU2 used to be in the Gainsborough area if I remember correctly

[langleybaston]

I nearly bought a second hand car for my newly-qualified SRN daughter .........666SRN, in Bridgend.

[ShyTorque]

There’s a Jaguar XF near here with the registration “R8PAL”

It used to reside on a Ferrari so obviously the owner’s not as “R8” as he used to be.

[Dan Gerous]

Back in the late 70's I used to hitch it up and down to Lossie regularly. Got picked up at Perth once going North, and chatting away to the guy giving me a lift and burst out laughing. Guy says what are you laughing at? I pointed out the reg of the car in front of us EAT 69 L. And it wasn't even anything flash, just a Ford Fiesta type of vehicle.

[SonOfRethymnon]

I can't remember the exact plates, but there's a house near me that has 2 cars with FAA and EASA on them.

Also a Tesla that tries to spell BATTERY, but looks like BUGGERY :-O

[The Nr Fairy]

Seeing as we've drifted away from aviation related number plates... I was overtaken on the M4 once by a Porsche 911, V8 SUX.

And my Boxster (originally RX03 xyz) sports FLT 51X.

[Fareastdriver]

My humble contribution is T33 APW. T being my surname, the 33 being a recognition of my last squadron plus the AS 330 and 332 of which I spent 12.500 of my 17.500 flying hours followed by my christian names initials.
Easy to remember but still cost me £250.

[mopardave]

I used to see a 4 wheel drive around Wetherby some years ago with B16 CLT..........it looked like they'd spiced it up to read something very sporty! Lady driver too!!

[[email protected]]

After retiring from 32 years RAF service, the last 13 of which were spent on 22 Sqn, my wife bought me a number plate starting X22 and finishing with my nickname.

I then had cause to make repeated visits by road to Credenhill but was never brave enough to pitch up at the gates there with that registration!