Funny aircraft registrations

[Superpilut]

Can't find the picture now, but there's also an Aeroflot Airbus (300?) registered F-OGYU

[proxus]

Some interesting registrations from Iceland

Here in Iceland we have 3 letters after TF-
So there are lots of options to play with. Here are few:

TF-SEX
TF-Toy
TF-FBI
TF-HOT ( well it doesn't have a motor but still..)
(former) TF-SPY
TF-EGG
TF-MAX

Well, there are more of them, but I am not the most creative mind when it come's to find funny three letter words. ( I wasn't even good at Scrapple)

Proxus

[pigboat]

I've flown a DC-3 with the registration CF-ORD. We bought it from a major car manufacturer.

[yachtpilot]

Some years ago I had the dubious pleasure of hacking around in a Bandit labled G-DORK....
one night on approach into Bournemouth the controller queried it from his paperwork and after we'd confirmed the reg he and his pals became helpless with laughter...by way of apology we were invited up to the tower for a couple of hours of coffee and sandwiches...they'd taken pity on us....

[HandspringGuy]

G ROWL

I may be wrong but I think G-ROWL is an AA5 at Cabair

[allthatglitters]

I remember BA having a B747-236F reg as G-KILO, which passed on to Cathay Pacific where it became VR-HVY and after the hand over in 1997 became B-HVY.

[Anchorman]

At Leeds Bradford Airport, Southside apron at the old Yorkshire Flying Club there was (or maybe still is) a light twin G-REAT

[SKI]

My father used to fly a falcon in the sixties F-BOLX

[On GS]

Techman:

I believe that OY-CIA was an ATR 42 with Cimber Air.

[Hostie from Hell]

And whistling Roger Whittaker had Be60 G-SING & Be20 G-SONG
some years ago.
Wonder if French connection have got wings yet ? G-

[MriyaDream]

Swedish P68

One of my all time favourite funny registrations I came across was a Swedish P68 at LGW SE-FUK...No kidding, one can't imagine any conversations between pilot & ATC

I flew in two good reg's G-GIII Gulfsream 3 & G-CCAA BAe125....

Brgds MriyaDream

[Taildragger]

Many years ago (When I were nobbut a lad, and Pontius were a Pilot), we had in BEA (The original) a Viscount 800 Series G-APIM.
It was known universally, by all and sundry as Itchy Minge.

[727 exec]

I've got N2FU in my logbook...

[Golf Charlie Charlie]

<<<
Didn't BA once have a Britannia G-ANBG that got re-registered prior to being used as a stately hack?
>>>

Yes - in fact, a BOAC Britannia 102. It was re-registered G-APLL.

[Travelling Toolbox]

Can't remember where I saw it (might have even been on PPrune) but I recall a BAC-111 which had served for many years as one of two of the type performing VIP tansport duties in the Royal Australian Air Force. It toted our successive prime ministers hither, thither and yon all its service life.

It was sold to an Australian in England and civil registered G-EXPM

[cargoflyer]

How about G-OUZO - seem to recall this was a A320 doing Gatwick-Athens and nothing else...

Cheers

[andymac]

Yes hostie, French Connection have sponsored a Pitts GFCUK!!

[Volume]

G-WAVE is (was ?) a G-109 motorglider and had to make a water landing in the north sea after ignition failure

[BBCapt]

Good ones I have seen personally ( sorry if already flagged )

PH-LEM Phillips Aviation F20

EI-EIO Pvt Twin Piston, prob a Seneca

I-FART Alitalia DC9

G-ONAD Pvt Twin Piston

....however the most (un)fortunate was an RT call sign I was previously forced to use for a light Jet AOC operator ( ...how it was approved by ICAO.. ) was SEX, and that was the 3 letter too....sigh...I'll leave all the ribald comments to your fertile imaginations.....

[BALIX]

Ah, I remember controlling the Sexy one - indeed it may have been you I spoke to one quiet night shift. I asked you or one of your colleagues just how the SEX designator and callsign got past the sensors. The answer was one of equal bemusment - God knows

The callsign and designator disappeared almost as quickly as it arrived - any idea what happened to it?