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

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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.

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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.

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

Why recalled?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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, who came from the Spanish aircraft manufacturer Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA, where he had held the position of CEO"

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.

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

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

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 ??