Apt car registrations

[gopher01]

Driving between Wootton Bassett and Wroughton today, car going in opposite direction registration C130 ENG, who can guess what he used to be. Anybody own up to it or know who it is? What other apt registrations are held by pruners?
My dream registration is advertised by one of the car registration dealers, 1 G E , however I think that that would be a little out of my price range even with an ex G.E.s wallet!

[1.3VStall]

In my travels I have seen X9 RAF, X57 RAF and X111 RAF. I have two personal plates, but if I post them here they will give away my identity!

[sealo0]

Local to me I have seen RED 3 just guessing.

[ACW599]

I saw 618 VGS in London a few months ago.

[Fly-by-Wife]

Not aviation related (but you never know), I saw WH0 2 NAG on a large SUV in Richmond yesterday.

[MPN11]

I saw P1 LOT near Heathrow, but I guess that was a civvy.
Similar location saw S1 NGH.

[NutLoose]

VC10 BYE at the final flight into Brunty

[B Fraser]

A certain balloonist who was part of the team who circumnavigated the globe in the Breitling Orbiter has P1 RTW (Pilot 1, Round The World). Very well earned.

Just along from where I lived in London was a famous actor with two Bentleys. The number plates were 2B and NOT 2B

I always wanted G-SPOT on a balloon as the retrieve crew would be forever trying to find it. I do want G-OFYS on the current toy .:E

[NutLoose]

Well if you are thread drifting into Aviation, the Italians have got you beaten.

https://live.staticflickr.com/4052/4678684020_2dd3e8dd74_c.jpg

[Buster Hyman]

:O
A little embarrassed here. I have an aircraft registration as my cars registration.... :uhoh:

[NutLoose]

Sad Ppruner of the Year Nominee 2024

:}


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[radar101]

I worked with a US aviation company in New York about 14 years ago - their chief engineer had a personalised plate RADAR (you can choose your own in NY). I was very jealous.

[ShyTorque]

Years ago I saw a brand new Jaguar XJ with the registration CAU710N.

The way it was being driven, it seemed quite apt.

[Lomon]

There used to be lots of MPA/Sub related ones at Kinloss.... I'm guessing many have migrated a few miles along the coast.

[Sue Vêtements]

It always seemed strange to me that the UK government misses out on a potentially lucrative money making scheme. Here in the US, you can have pretty much anything you want on your plate with a max of 7 characters, plus plenty of specialised plates with an extra logo on them like if you were or had been in the military for instance. Texas has a website where you can make one up and see if it's allowed or already taken

Having said that, I want my car to be as stock as possible. Just too many nutters and too many guns here. There have been many times when I recognised that I'd previously seen a vehicle because of the vanity plate. I just want to blend in

And to get back on topic, there's this unfortunate one:



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[GeeRam]

Pretty sure I recall seeing F6 LTG on a car in Lincolnshire about 30 years ago....and wondering if......

[treadigraph]

Just along from where I lived in London was a famous actor with two Bentleys. The number plates were 2B and NOT 2B

Was that Staedtler from The Muppets...?

[jagnut]

A friend of mine has EX06 RAF up for sale on Six Sqn Facebook page.

[gopher01]

When I was living in Crantoc just down from Newquay whilst stationed at Lyneham I found the local geographic registration letters were AF so any body at St Mawgan could end up with a RAF registraion. One local sued the County council because they gave him a registration with OAF and he said it was insulting, local opinion was it served him right!

[antisthenes]

The recent 72 registration may well have produced a plethora of examples. Might even be one on my drive.

[SimonPaddo]

Farnborough Air Training Corps - 457 squadron, has a minibus with reg 457 RAF or RAF 457, cant remember which.

[ShyTorque]

I'm surprised that so far someone hasn't posted vitriol about personalised plates.....

[MPN11]

Here in Jersey we just have Jnnnnnn, but stupid money is paid for low numbers. J52 would be 'worth' over £20,000.

[Expatrick]

Talking of Richmond, remember FU 2.

[SimonPaddo]

Or in West Byfleet a TR7 (that dates me) 5EXY and no the driver was far from it

[Krystal n chips]

I'm surprised that so far someone hasn't posted vitriol about personalised plates.....

Feel free to start a thread in JB...... All depends how you define "vitriol " of course.

[B Fraser]

It always seemed strange to me that the UK government misses out on a potentially lucrative money making scheme.

No they haven't. I selected the plate that's on the fun car.

[vulcanite]

For several years I had V2 VNE on various cars (V1 not available). Fine in airport staff car parks, after retirement it wasn't quite the same in Waitrose car park, so sold it on. I believe it is presently on a TUI Captain's motorbike...

[Sue Vêtements]

Well last I heard (and that was many years ago in fairness) there used to be full page adverts in the newspapers listing various plates that with imagination (varying from a little to a significant amount) could be turned into words ... if you took a 1 as an I or a 5 as an S etc, but the vendors were all private sellers

Here you can go to a website and create pretty much whatever string you want, so you could have your Prune User name as your license plate if you chose to. Sure it's a private company running it, but the state gets a cut of the proceeds

[B Fraser]

It has been the same in the UK for decades.

DVLA Personalised Registrations - Buy private registrations direct from the DVLA. From £250 fully inclusive (https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/)

[sealo0]

Out of pure interest I check on Boss Hogg a few weeks ago & it comes up as BO55 HOG on a Harley Davison

[ShyTorque]

Feel free to start a thread in JB...... All depends how you define "vitriol " of course.

I’d be a hypocrite if I did.

[Coltishall. loved it]

Back in the 90's at Colt, there was a civvy driving around in a beaten up piece of poo, Vauxhall "Astra".......On the back, where it said "Astra" He had printed out a sticker and placed it in front of the Astra badge saying: PER ARDUA AD :) Muppet

[Sue Vêtements]

It has been the same in the UK for decades.

DVLA Personalised Registrations - Buy private registrations direct from the DVLA. From £250 fully inclusive (https://dvlaregistrations.dvla.gov.uk/)


Interesting. Not quite the same though. I tried looking for BFRASER and it gave me BF03 RAS, BF04 RAS, BF05 RAS and BF06 RAS as well as several others that weren't even close

If you were in Texas you could use my plates dot com (https://www.myplates.com/) to choose something a lot closer like BFRASER or B.FRASER or B <a little map of Texas> FRASER etc

[The Helpful Stacker]

There used to be a fellow stacker kicking around who had the reg F676 RAF.

[Widger]

As has been mentioned AF is a Cornish registration. NT is a Shropshire reg and yes the Station Commander had a car with UNT suffix plus the desired prefix.

[J.A.F.O.]

I'm surprised that so far someone hasn't posted vitriol about personalised plates.....

I could but it's not worth getting worked up about something so patently silly.

[ShyTorque]

There we go.

[Radley]

P8ASW has been seen.

[nevillestyke]

I got a personalised number plate for only £50, by changing my name, by deed poll, to LNK 810H. Paul Raymond used to have PEN 15, with appropriate spacing.

[NutLoose]

Found it. The odd thing is, the silver Audi TT Mk 1 in the background was mine :E

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x683/image_23c0672f2f8db1448d21ed6ac3be902b7fe142c6.jpeg

There were two on the final flight day, one I think was owned by a couple of Ex 10 loadies, as I recognised their faces.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x683/image_3628a7e9d03d0b126c7d27ed6fdc376a526bab61.jpeg

https://www.globalaviationresource.com/v2/2013/09/25/aviation-news-end-of-an-era-as-last-flying-vickers-vc10-lands-at-bruntingthorpe/


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[Hydromet]

Low single number plates go for ridiculous money here - "2" changed hands (with the ar that it was on, the only way you could sell them then) for several million. The father of a fellow woodwork student 20+ years ago inherited a car with the plate "1", which had belonged at one time to the founding chairman of Trans Australian Airlines. He lived in a different state, and to keep the registration, he had to have the car registered in NSW, but, as a continuation of his good fortune, he was already in the process of moving.

At one time I used to see a car locally with the plate RSM --- (can't remember the numbers) and wondered if the driver was in fact an RSM, as the letters weren't in the normal sequence. Now, in the same area where that car was usually heading, there is often one parked with the plate 2 RAR (2nd Bn, Royal Australian Regiment), so I wonder if it belongs to the same person.

[Buster Hyman]

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Not aviation but this caused a stir recently, it is being "urgently recalled"!

[NutLoose]

Why recalled?

[NutLoose]

There used to be a fellow stacker kicking around who had the reg F676 RAF.


What you really needed was F252 RAF on a Dodge Charger ;) but then they changed the form number :(

[Hydromet]

Why recalled?
Date of Hamas attack - I suspect that's the reason.

[NutLoose]

Thanks. My mind at the time was closer to home.

[Buster Hyman]

Why recalled?
Sorry Nutty, thought you were being sarcastic! :} Yes, not the Hunt for White October...

[BANANASBANANAS]

Ex Air 2000 pilot had AMM 757

AMM being the code for Air 2000 and the 757 self explanatory

Many years ago, I had a friend who worked at a Vauxhall main dealership. His wife was called Judy. For Christmas he bought her a car with personalised plate of A17 UDY, altered the spacing a bit, got 'creative with the '7' and suddenly it was A1 JUDY. Probably wouldn't get away with that today.

[ancientaviator62]

When I was on 92 there was an Aston Martin DB4 or 6 with the reg OC 92. This was painted in a fetching shade of ground equipment blue and was passed from one CO to another.
It was a 'banger' then as most old cars were but I wonder what it would be worth now.

[Stitchbitch]

VSTOL or V8TOL was on a pilots car outside IV(AC) Sqn in the early 2000’s.

[Kiltrash]

I know a man with RAF1V.....and no he' s not or been in the mob. That's actually his name

Of course if this gets moved to JB there's always, from a few years ago I would see , CUE80Y... Owned at the time by Jimmy White whizzing round Sheffield

[Maxibon]

I've just seen TUI7600 near Andover - a holiday airline pilot with comms issues?

[rog747]

I want to maybe buy from DVLA (am in the process of) VC10 RRC

or VC10 RRR

or DC10 LAK


all plates are just from £250

[Maxibon]

I got a personalised number plate for only £50, by changing my name, by deed poll, to LNK 810H. Paul Raymond used to have PEN 15, with appropriate spacing.

At TWU, we had a wonderful ex-Lightning pilot flt cdr's car adorned with PEN15 (for sh**s and giggles, as it was Porsche) whilst he was flying. The RAFP had a very serious chat with him stating it was illegal and despite him saying it was an attempt at humour by the cse, the snowdrop still couldn't see the funny side.

[Badger3434]

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/760x614/seat_e22e18043598c16264242aaf36ac619b9c8582d4.jpg

An aggreeable little gem from an Austrian holiday.

In case of complaints about non-aviation I would refer you to the following Wiki entry: "[SEAT's] first president was the industrial and aeronautical engineer, pilot, and photographer José Ortiz-Echagüe Puertas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortiz-Echag%C3%BCe), who came from the Spanish aircraft manufacturer Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construcciones_Aeron%C3%A1uticas_SA), where he had held the position of CEO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEO)"

[ShyTorque]

I’ve mentioned this before. Never mind.

I was a member of a small flying club where another member (a security guard) used to turn up dressed like he was in the SAS. He gained his PPL on C152s then almost immediately joined a group flying a JP3 at another airfield some distance away. He then soon took to turning at the bar dressed in an RAF pattern flying suit adorned with an RAF type wings patch with the words “Jet Pilot”. He also click-clacked his way across the floor to the bar wearing ejection seat leg restrainers, so everyone turned to see. I don’t think he was clever enough to see how “impressed” everyone else was by that…. :rolleyes:

He then bought a big Jaguar saloon and changed the registration to D1 LOT. He had inserted an extra black fixing screw below the D to make it look like a P. He turned up for a happy hour and parked right it outside the entrance to the clubhouse.

He drove away in the dark obviously unaware that a couple of his fellow club members got out the black insulation type and when he turned up again a couple of days later it still read P1LLOCK.

[57mm]

One of the trappers at CFS had 243 RAF, which I thought quite apt. Also saw OGO 2L on an Aston.

[rigpiggy]

3 a/c I've been in cgfux,cgsux,cfckd.

[OmegaV6]

I might be wrong but I have a vague memory of the registration mentioned in the opening post C130 ENG belonging to MEng Andy House and adorning a orangy coloured Muscle car ... ?? possibly a mustang ??

[ShyTorque]

An ex mil acquaintance retired and bought himself a Mazda MX-5. The registration he put on it was Y1 CBA. When asked about it (the car was newer than a Y reg) he laughingly told everyone it stood for “Why I Can’t Be Ar$€d”.

[WE992]

I saw VC10JAG in Southrop a couple of years ago and I think the owner frequents this forum.

[BlankBox]

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/576x768/jenny_06c1748c4175654f64664a89e39251558b6cacf8.jpg

...anybody remember Jenny?

[Roland Pulfrew]

Used to be a V2 2 FLY around Halton some years ago

[rigpiggy]

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/576x768/jenny_06c1748c4175654f64664a89e39251558b6cacf8.jpg

...anybody remember Jenny?
thanks, I thought I lost her number

[Jazzyg]

Also used to be Reg F5 TSW for a certain TSW FS.....

[Tengah Type]

Navigator Boss of 10 Sqn in late 80's. A10NAV

[Zombywoof]

thanks, I thought I lost her numberIt's written on the wall. For a good time, call.

[Geezers of Nazareth]

A neighbour in the 90s had a white Toyota Supra with the reg 'A10 JET'.

[Fishtailed]

A retired Flight Test Engineer from Warton still drives his car with the reg F3 ADV.. Also a sadly deceased member of flight ops had on his car T10 CTP.

[Tedderboy]

Haven’t been on PPRUNE for a while but came across this thread last night and it got me thinking of suitable plates for Ex Herc mates…some of which have already been mentioned (C130 ENG, C130 NAV, OC70 LXX etc etc.). Then by some completely random coincidence I was driving through Addingham, near Skipton, today and plate on the car in front was 47 SF!

[Wycombe]

I got a personalised number plate for only £50, by changing my name, by deed poll, to LNK 810H. Paul Raymond used to have PEN 15, with appropriate spacing.

Remember seeing that last one on a large Merc in a car park at Heathrow many years ago. Remember thinking "did I really just see that!"

[Diff Tail Shim]

Could have brought EX06 RAF from an ex Tinopener mate selling for charity. Wife said no. Not that sad to do so.

[just another jocky]

On one of my tours on 617 Sqn, we received a letter offering A617NAV.

[57mm]

Seen near the local hospital: NUR51E

[Slow Biker]

During my commute from Medmenham to HQSTC I would often see a Porsche 911 reg 911 EGO.

[albatross]

SQK 7700
Weirdest I ever saw was NA2I on a Uk vehicle in Normandy for the 45th anniversary of D-Day.

[WASALOADIE]

My car reg is: XL04DYO
on a show plate it reads X L04DY 0

[snapper41]

As John Peel once said; ‘Personalised plate? Sure sign of a w*nker’…

[condor17]

Expatrick , yep ... yellow Suzuki jeep in Windsor High st. driven by the delectable Fiona R !
Wycombe , don't forget Paul R's daughter [ name fogotten ] got to be a CSD on Mid fleet [ 767s ] , had a sense of humour and might have borrowed dad's car ...

rgds condor .

[condor17]

Memory switched back on .... Might have been Scarlet Green

condor .

[Icare9]

My car reg is: XL04DYO
on a show plate it reads X L04DY 0
Perhaps also once a yodeller?

[Union Jack]

As John Peel once said; ‘Personalised plate? Sure sign of a w*nker’…
I believe that he may also have said virtually the same thing about people who make a personalised decision about what colour of car they prefer....:rolleyes:

Jack

[Lucifer Morningstar]

I was waiting to cross a road in Central Lincoln in around 1991 when a Roller or Bentley (not sure which) trundled by with the plate 1RAF. That could not have been cheap.

Best plate I ever saw was on the front of a Lamborgini Diablo and it read T13 VOM. It took me a while to realize that if he was behind you and you looked in your rearview mirror, it read MOV E1T.

[ShyTorque]

I’ve had one in my rear view mirror that said ECILOP. I pulled in let it past. Tasteless paint job on it.

[treadigraph]

Colleague of mine left to work for a job with the Home Office purchasing police cars. I drew up a farewell card depicting a jam sandwiched Reliant Robin with Bodicea hubcaps sporting the number plate F1 LTH...

[Expatrick]

Colleague of mine left to work for a job with the Home Office purchasing police cars. I drew up a farewell card depicting a jam sandwiched Reliant Robin with Bodicea hubcaps sporting the number plate F1 LTH...

Not P1G?

[Helol]

Seen in South Africa:

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[B Fraser]

As John Peel once said; ‘Personalised plate? Sure sign of a w*nker’…

What would he have said about personalised aircraft registrations ? My reply would be G-OFYS.

[cliver029]

…..and a few years ago now and around Cambridge, a “ Roller” (I think) with 10 CC number plate

[5 Forward 6 Back]

I'll never forget going through training with someone who had FA51 JET. A bold move while at Linton on the Tucano, and I wonder how well received it was wherever he went next; which wasn't Valley..!

[ShyTorque]

An amusing one I saw parked outside the local flying club was a bright red Ferrari with “R8 PAL”. A commonly used greeting in this part of the world.

[Badger3434]

Coming the other way today: 32 BA.

A junk car, so clearly not a BA employee.

[Union Jack]

Sighted my all-time US favourite when heading to my daughter's beach house in the Hamptons - a blue metallic Jaguar convertible with the top down in the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane of the Long Island Expressway, which requires a minimum of two occupants. Occupants in this case, one man and an Alsatian, with the Jaguar sporting the license tag BOLLOX....

I subsequently asked a friendly state trooper if the definition of "occupant" included four-legged friends and, after a moment of reflection, he replied, "Only if it is a seeing-eye dog, Sir"!:D

Jack

[albatross]

I vaguely recall someone writing someplace that there is a “Thing” in the USN that the Commanding Officer of many vessels have “Vanity Plates” with the ship’s pendant number thereupon and they are transferred to new COs.
I have no idea if this is truth or fiction. It may even have been in one of Tom Clancy’s novels.