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Old 29th Sep 2003, 20:01
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Special shape commercially sponsored hot air balloons have to take the prize for originality. For example:

Bertie Bassett - G-BXAL (Bassett's Licorice Allsorts)
Alka Seltzer - G-CURE
Financial Times - G-ETFT
Ordnance Survey - G-MAPS
Guiness can - G-PURE
Sonic the Hedgehog - G-SEGA
National Power cooling tower - G-WATT
Ice cream cone - G-ICES
Uncle Sam - G-USAM
BBC1 World - G-IBBC
Peanut - G-PNUT
Golf ball - G-PUTT
Light bulb - G-LAMP
Toliet rolls - G-LOOS
J&B Whiskey bottle - G-JANB
Flying Saucer - G-GUFO
Santa Claus - G-HOHO
Humpty Dumpty - G-EGGG

There was a special shape condom around at one point - I'd like to think it had an appropriate reg... G-ROPE or G-HARD perhaps.
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Old 29th Sep 2003, 20:27
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Channel Express have an A300 freighter with the reg G-CEXI.

OOh... he is a sexy machine!
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Old 29th Sep 2003, 20:56
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The Air Inter flying club has (used to have) an ASH-25 registered as F-CHIT

A Breguet 901 is registered as F-CCCP, still airworthy after almost 50 years (pic).
Rumor has it that it outlanded once in Switzerland and was mistaken for a soviet glider for a few minutes.

Some other ones (taken from http://www.teaser.fr/u/pbrugier/f_f.htm)
F-CAKE CASTEL 301S
F-CEXY GROB 102 ASTIR CS 77
F-BUTT PIPER PA.34 200 SENECA
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Old 29th Sep 2003, 21:36
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Aussie aerobatic champion Chris Sperou's first Pitts was VH-TIT, later replaced by VH-CEX!
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Old 29th Sep 2003, 22:22
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heard I-ANTZ over switzerland.
Also a lh whisperjet D-AIRO and my personal favorite, the LH A321 D-AILY!
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Old 29th Sep 2003, 22:56
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I've also seen I * MAMY (Imagine a red heart instead of the asterisk)
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Old 29th Sep 2003, 23:15
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DBate,

That LH aircraft (D-AHLU) is now leased out to an Italian carrier (forgot the name but it could be Volare).
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Old 29th Sep 2003, 23:18
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Cabair also own a Grumman Tiger G-BOZO.

Accurate description of how I flew it the other week.
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Old 30th Sep 2003, 00:33
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Angel

I remember seeing a photo a few years back in "Pilot" of
G-WILI and G-PUSI parked next to each other at a horse race meet....somebody post it if you've got it.

GOJET Manx's little 146 darling...

G-DOFY the Duchess of York's Jet Ranger she used to have.
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Old 30th Sep 2003, 00:35
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.....For the lady who has everything, G-HERS, a Citation X
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Old 30th Sep 2003, 01:04
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Hi,

I-SMEL (Meridiana MD-82).

BAe 146-100
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Old 30th Sep 2003, 01:33
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How about G-OFCM C172 based in Guernsey, Supposedly stands for GO Flight Clearance and Met, However ....
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Nerik,

in that case the aircraft must have been one from LH partner airlines, since all aircraft flown by LH itself have either D-ABxx (Boeing) or D-AIxx (Airbus).

So long, DBate
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Old 30th Sep 2003, 03:03
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WILI and PUSI used to come together quite often, I believe.

There is a C172 (available for hire at Roskilde, Denmark) registered OY-BUM!

That one was just calling out to me!
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Old 30th Sep 2003, 05:30
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There was the "Royal" reg of Prince William of Glouster..
G-AW@G
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Old 30th Sep 2003, 07:24
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C-IMFC, a Zenair is owned by retired actor John Morgan (ex-Royal Canadian Air Farce tv show).

He had a half-wit character on the show named Mike from Canmore, AB. He always opened the skit with, "Hi I'm Mike...From Canmore".
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Old 30th Sep 2003, 23:30
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Seems you sometimes need the same sort of wild imagination to make something out of nothing here just like those sillies with their "personalised" car plates.

G-DOFY was not the D of Y's, she merely learned to fly in the scrofulous old heap which some sycophant had re-registered for the occasion.

Why have none of the Police units got G-LOLO? Hmm, something to do with coppers' sensavumour perhaps!

The CAA some years back refused, if memory serves, G-ZIZI, which apparently is french slang for the female pudenda. How the hell did they know that???
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Same reason they "jumped" on PEN 1 [rounded] 5
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Miserlou,

I flew the OY-BUM quite often, the registration fits the aircraft quite well.

Many moons ago, there was a C337 in Denmark with the unexciting registration OY-AGU. However tha danish CAA didn't like it when the owner added RK to the reg; in danish AGURK means cucumber. see http://www.airliners.net/open.file?i...tic=yes&size=L
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An aircraft was registered in Western Australia to a man with a bad stutter "VH - PPP"

Heard to say on frequency one day

"Kalgoorlie Flight Service this is PPPPP, F@7k it you know who I am and I'm coming in"
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