What country has registration HE-xxx
 

An ultra light or rather very light type of aircraft crashed the other day in Nothern Greece.

The registration I saw was HE- something. I know HB is a swiss registration, but what country HE is?


Curiosity is my sin.

Rwy in Sight

AFAIK HE is not allocated as an international registration mark. It could be associated with the HEllenic Republic - do Greece run a national registration scheme for aircraft that do not operate internationally?

Our national registration is SX-... So Çellenic Republic although impressive on you knowing my country's name does seem improbable. I mean I never heard of international / domestic destinations...

Thanks for your assistance.


Rwy in Sight

HE- is not registered as State marking by ICAO. Possibly a badly marked HB- ???

In the ITU list, the group HEA to HEZ is allocated to Switzerland, and ICAO seems to follow the ITU list.

Although I've not heard of any UK aircraft with a registration M-XXXX or 2A-XXXX! ( the UK has the series MAA to MZZ as well as 2AA to 2ZZ)

Oh hurry up people and use up all the G-regs so I can get M-IKEY!!!

This answers many such questions, including the decode of all the company callsigns and much else.

Hope helps.

W

I belive HE is Columbia in South America. HP I believe is Panama. I may be wrong

According to the document I posted two posts back on this very thread Columbia is HK and Panama is indeed HP.

According to that document (and it seems pretty reliable) HE isn't allocated.

W

The letter M**** used by UK aircraft refers only to military aircraft. When I was in the RAF (many moons ago) each aircraft had a Mike radio callsign allocated.

For example, it worked like this - MOGKG translated as follows:

M: British military aeroplane.
O: Command (eg Transport Command).
G: Aircraft Type.
K: Squadron.
G: Individual aircraft.

Before my time, the radio callsign was painted on the nose cone of transport aircraft.

Other countries use a similar system for their military aircraft. I seem to remember that Holland uses PE (eg PE-XAD) and Belgium OT (eg OT-CBG).

So, you are going to have to join up and then wait a very long time before you get to MIKEY!

'Tis the same alphabetic allocation as is used for amateur radio and other callsigns (where 2A and M are used as well as G).

An amateur callsign starting HE would be the same as HB - namely Switzerland. My guess would be that HE-xxx is Swiss Mil.

H4 is Solomon Islands
H5 is Bophuthatswana
HA is Hungary
HB is Swiss/Liechtenstein
HC is Ecuador

and so it goes on ... and on ... and on.


Keef
G3OIT
GW3OIT
Formerly DJ0MR

Where do I find a list of the three-letter identifier of airports, ie London Heathrow LHR etc.? Have been looking everywhere - but obviously in all the wrong places. :{

It's certainly in the Flight Information Supplement (which comes with one of the popular IFR Touring Guides). If you're just after the 3 letter ICAO Commerical Airport decodes, they're certainly in British Airways timetables.

Have just done a search of the BA Web site and can't find the info there, but have found this site, which should help.

Thanks Circuit Basher – one link leading to another turned out to be quite a voyage of discovery - instructive as well as entertaining. :ok: