Why are ex British colonies aircrafts reg start with V
 

Why are ex British colonies aircrafts reg start with V

Australia VH
Hong Kong VR now B after China hand over
India VT
Bermuda VPB
Virgin Islands VPL

So what about South Africa and the USA then?

Seems that you might have forgotten Canada, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, and a whole host of ex African colonies. The list goes on....................

Regards,

Old Smokey

Dunno but in old days UK reggos on sail boats and planes corresponded with the national letter being a K (as in K5054 for example) again with sailing former colonies kept the K's so Oz was KA, Kiwiland, KZ the Canuks were KC and so on - all of that was dropped a few years back...

There's probably a sticky for this somewhere. If not, I have it bookmarked since it seems to come up regularly.
Aircraft reggie prefixes correspond to (and are issued by) the International Telecommunications Union national radio callsigns.
The UK has a number of radio allocation letters beside the familiar G-, I have no idea why the VP-,VQ- and VR- series where selected for the ahem... colonies. Queen Victoria's Empire perhaps ? :}
The above list also explains why 'new' countries don't always get reggie prefixes which make sense - those letters are already in use (although some reassignments do occasionally happen).
hth

Am I am the only one to note this!!!! Most appropriate.

It does take a certain type of mind to notice a detail like that. Love it.:ok: