VH
 

Can someone tell me the background to the selection of VH for Aussie Reg a/c?

i have heard that before about Victor Hargraves,but me seems to think that story is a bit of a myth.. anyone else have more info?? Thanks :)

It was actually Lawrence Hargraves that was involved in aviation, not Victor.

There's a semi-explanation in this old Prune thread, makes sense......

http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-72146.html

I was led to believe it was simply a code issued to au by ICAO, nothing to do with Victor Hargraves. All former commonwealth countries were/are V something

GABLUES

I don't know if this helps, or just adds to the confusion, but a quick google search revealed this...

ADASTRON

Either way, thanks for the question.

oops! ;) - where did that message go!

I always thought it was VB (victoria bitter) read after two weeks not eating carrots :}

VH- U
 

I thought that any registration that started with "U" after the VH- was a so called vintage or antique aircraft. Is this true?

Tmb

no this is not true, i fly a 20 - 30 year old Cessna 172, and its registration is VH- UOR, not a special registration as far as i know

shortdrygrass's attachment is correct. My amateur radio call sign commences with "VK". Coastal radio station call signs commence with "VM". Many years ago I owned a C150 registered VH-UGL, so "VH-U.." is not reserved fr antiques. During World War II and after, the "VH-C.." series appears to have been reserved for Commonwealth aircraft and the DC3/C47 and DC5 "Biscuit Bombers" were all in the "VH-C.." series (including ex KLM DC3 VH-CXD whose remains are still at Bamaga.)

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Strewth, I can remember when VM was for Aussie military aircraft:{

I can remember when Aussie military aircraft - DHC6 and B200 were registered VH-HP_ due to being leased from Hawker pacific!

Don't recall the military ever using "VM" registrations, but I recently saw a winglet equipped King Air 350 with RAAF roundels and an "A" military registration number. I checked the RAAF web site and was amazed to find this statement:

I suspect they mean "between 25,000 and 35,000 feet." Life could be very interesting - not to mention, rather busy - at 300 kts and 25 feet AGL!

:E

Australian registrations were originally G-AU after that was allocated to Australia by the International Commission on Air Navigation (ICAN) as a result oif the 1919 Paris Convention.

See: Registration Markings of Australian Aircraft

The Australian prefix VH- was allocated to Australia by ICAN in 1928.

ICAN became ICAO in 1944 as a result (or because of??) the Chicago Convention.

Disco..........see the airways museum site re VM and VL prefixes!

Going further back than that (early '70s) I seem to recall that all the VH-H**, I** and J** marks were reserved for military use and not available for civil allocation in Australia.

From memory the Canberra bombers and Chinooks had H** identifiers, Caribous were JC* and Hercs were JL*. I can't recall what the Neptunes/Orions/DC3s used for 3 letter callsigns. I think at the time the Mirages/F4s/F111s were the only aircraft to have non-registration callsigns such as Buckshot, Falcon etc. Navy aircraft were always prefixed with "Navy", I think.

Anybody else remember what the allocation registrations were for military aircraft at the time?

That's actually quite funny :} 20-30 year old GA machines are not considered vintage, good man, we're talking about flying machines from the 40's or 50's like the venerable Tigermoth :ok:

A thirty year old airframe, properly maintained, will be of a technical standard comparable with a ten year old car.

I don't recall military aircraft having civil VH registrations (Except the HP leased aircraft)? :confused:

Indeed, the RAAF web site states:

The web site quotes the DC2/DC3 as "A30"; Canberra as "A84"; Chinook "A15" and Herc "A97". When did the RAAF use civil registrations? :confused:

The RAAF used NLA thru NLG when they operated BAC111s and Mysteres. I am fairly sure that these were not on the VH-register but they certainly used call-signs November Lima Alpha and so on - none of this poofy stuff like Envoy.

I've taken just one as an example from the Lockheed File by Ron Cuskelly.........

A97-205 http://www.lockheed.adastron.com/hercules/la97205-3.jpg

Type: L-182-1A Hercules C-130A-50-LM
Msn: 182-3205
Call Sign: VM-JLA

I clearly remember the Caribou, CT4A and the Winjeel as also having a VM-*** radio callsign placard on the instrument panel in the same manner as civil aircraft have a VH-*** placard.

I knew I wasn't imagining this:rolleyes:

Disco

Well, there ya go - learn something new everyday! :ok:

:}

The commercial class that went through my flying school in the early 1990's while I was doing my PPL organised a trip to Bali.

The CFI - ex-1 FTS, ex-Roulettes, and ex-VIP flight - repeatedly used the callsign "VM-JGP" on the Duchess while in Indonesian airspace :rolleyes: