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Superpilut 8th October 2003 05:50

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

proxus 9th October 2003 03:31

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 10th October 2003 08:35

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

yachtpilot 10th October 2003 20:25

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 10th October 2003 21:55

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

allthatglitters 12th October 2003 01:02

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 12th October 2003 04:06

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

SKI 12th October 2003 05:13

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

On GS 12th October 2003 05:42

Techman:

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

Hostie from Hell 12th October 2003 05:51

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

MriyaDream 12th October 2003 10:49

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:ooh:

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

Brgds MriyaDream

Taildragger 13th October 2003 07:43

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 14th October 2003 05:11

I've got N2FU in my logbook...

Golf Charlie Charlie 14th October 2003 06:53

<<<
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 14th October 2003 11:54

Can't remember where I saw it (might have even been on PPrune):O 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 :cool:

cargoflyer 14th October 2003 20:06

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

Cheers

andymac 14th October 2003 23:38

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

Volume 15th October 2003 20:15

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

BBCapt 17th October 2003 02:46

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 17th October 2003 05:20

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 :O

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


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