Aircraft type info
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Aircraft type info
Can anyone help me with this one? I am trying to find a comprehensive list of aircraft type designators used in flight planning (eg B735 to represent Boeing 737-500 etc).
I've tried searching the NATS website, the CAA website and the Eurocontrol website to no avail!!!.
Cheers all.....
I've tried searching the NATS website, the CAA website and the Eurocontrol website to no avail!!!.
Cheers all.....
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Try :
http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/
Click on the 'Aircraft Codes' thing at the top left and voila ! Should be what your looking for I think.
Rgds.
http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/
Click on the 'Aircraft Codes' thing at the top left and voila ! Should be what your looking for I think.
Rgds.
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Flight Planning Codes
Thanks for a good link, to that Airline Codes site.
Now I'm baffled. Always thought flight planning codes were something else, not IATA, not ICAO. Was fairly sure my 'bus was flight planned as "EA32" (ie, European Airbus or some such) not A320 or 320. Someone else said all new baby Boeings were "B73B" wheras old ones were flight planned as "B73A"
Might there be more to this than meets the eye?
Thanks for a good link, to that Airline Codes site.
Now I'm baffled. Always thought flight planning codes were something else, not IATA, not ICAO. Was fairly sure my 'bus was flight planned as "EA32" (ie, European Airbus or some such) not A320 or 320. Someone else said all new baby Boeings were "B73B" wheras old ones were flight planned as "B73A"
Might there be more to this than meets the eye?
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From: Below EDDL REP November
Hi there...
Billy, please try this link which is a pdf file from Eurocontrol
Eurocontrol pdf file
It shows the used aircraft abbreviations on flightplans in the Eurocontrol airspace.
They are calles BADA and indeed, you should call a B737-200 B73A, a B737-500 is a B73B and the NG planes are called B73C.
Greetings
Alex
Billy, please try this link which is a pdf file from Eurocontrol
Eurocontrol pdf file
It shows the used aircraft abbreviations on flightplans in the Eurocontrol airspace.
They are calles BADA and indeed, you should call a B737-200 B73A, a B737-500 is a B73B and the NG planes are called B73C.
Greetings
Alex
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Try the following link to the ICAO website for the definitive answer to the question of aircraft type designators.
www.icao.int/anb/ais/8643/index.cfm
www.icao.int/anb/ais/8643/index.cfm
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Hi RDi
The designators do change from time to time. eg 737s were 73A (200), 73S (300), and 73F (400), but when the NG ones came along they obviously decided to re-name them. Similarly the A320 was 'EA32' but was renamed when the A319 and A321 came along.
The designators do change from time to time. eg 737s were 73A (200), 73S (300), and 73F (400), but when the NG ones came along they obviously decided to re-name them. Similarly the A320 was 'EA32' but was renamed when the A319 and A321 came along.
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Thanks for the explanations, airchabum and Trabbi, and especially CF for the super ICAO link. Think I understand it now.
All those years when we thought a Viscount was a VC8, whereas now it is a VISC - makes more sense, just like using the numbers we use every day makes more sense than EA32 or B73A.
Just goes to show
- there are lots of details in aviation
- the details keep changing
- we don't know what we don't know !
Cheers
All those years when we thought a Viscount was a VC8, whereas now it is a VISC - makes more sense, just like using the numbers we use every day makes more sense than EA32 or B73A.
Just goes to show
- there are lots of details in aviation
- the details keep changing
- we don't know what we don't know !
Cheers
