Aircraft registration
An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies an aircraft, in similar fashion to a licence plate on an automobile. In accordance with the Convention on International Civil Aviation all aircraft must be registered with a national authority (such as the Federal Aviation Administration or Transport Canada), and furthermore, they must carry proof of this registration in the form of a legal document called a Certificate of Registration at all times when in operation. Most countries also require the aircraft registration to be imprinted on a permanent fireproof plate mounted on the fuselage for the purposes of post-fire/post-crash aircraft accident investigation.
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Aircraft Registration Media
- Aircraft Registration Prefixes Map of the World 2014.svg
Geographic map of registration prefixes
- S7-ASB Airbus A320 Vietnam Airlines (7372459722).jpg
Shortly after the ending of US trade embargo, early Vietnam Airlines Western-supplied aircraft were registered in an overseas jurisdiction (such as Seychelles) during the 1990s
- JAL B747-400(JA8089) (5481514185).jpg
Registration JA8089 on a Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400
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Air France Airbus A318 displaying registration F-GUGJ on the wing undersurface and the last two letters of the registration, GJ, on the nose wheel doors
- Airbus A321-231(w) 'N102NN' American Airlines (14317556496).jpg
An A321-231 displaying American Airlines registration N102NN on the rear fuselage
