Dodgy registrations (again)

[Flap40]

I know we covered this a couple of weeks ago, but I could not find the thread.

Anyway, I see in the "New Reg's" page in this months "Pilot" that someone has managed to register a Gazelle..... G-FUKM!!!!

[Aussie Andy]

Nice one

I just hope no-one gets G-ANDY before I can afford to register my own aircraft!

Hang on, strike that: I think I would rather go on the N-reg...

Andy

[vintage ATCO]

Too late. G-ANDY was a DH104 Dove 6, registered on 29.9.53, and damaged beyond repair after crashing on take-off from Edinburgh 29.5.62.

VA

[Aerohack]

Best stick with N-reg, Andy. Someone got G-ANDY 40 years ago, on a Dove, and it crashed in 1962. Nor could you have G-AUSI or G-AUSS, because those would have been Australian registrations prior to 1929. Unlike the FAA, our dear CAA doesn't allow re-allocations, transfers of registration or re-use of 'British Colonial' registrations long since surpassed by State systems, though I've never understood or believed the lame explanations they put forward about possible ATC confusion of aircraft type. Whatever aeroplane you are able to afford in the future, I doubt that it would be a Sopwith Antelope like 'AUSS.

[Mike Cross]

At the risk of repeating myself I give you:-............

SEXX with the BTCH!

Mike

[Barshifter]

Ausi Andy

Get a move on! G-AUSS has gone but G-AUSI is as yet unregistered


Barshifter

[Charlie Zulu]

Is it not possible to pre-register (reserve) a registration with the CAA for future possible use?

[vintage ATCO]

Yes it is, I know people who have done this.

VA

[RodgerF]

However they charge you a recurring fee to reserve a registration until you use it.

[Aussie Andy]

Great thread! Thanks for all the suggestions...

I love the photo Mike - hadn't seen this before

Andy