Airlines decide reg's

G-BYAG crashed, so that on was taken up!! The 763s were to be allocated the G-OBY* series. Q looks too much like O which is why many airlines don’t use Q.

Thats why I said they wouldnt want to use G because of what happened to it!

MyTravel’s reg’s are “chosen” to represent members of their staff. In Airliner World it had a list of reg’s and who they are named after.

can you remember what edition that was at all

Business Air had reserved all registrations from G-GNTA through to G-GNTZ (TZ was used for our one and only 146). These out of sequence registrations do cost more than having one allocated by the CAA, I can’t remember the figures unfortunately.

The GNT was our three letter ICAO code, as we were based in the Granite City (Aberdeen). As for G-RUNG, it used to be F-GGBV, owned by Aigle Azur and from whom we initially leased the aircraft from, away back in 1995/96. It was then bought by an investment company Shooting Star Investments, and the aircraft was then put onto the UK register. It may have since changed hands – ownership wise, but I believe it went straight from us to Aurigny. As to why G-RUNG – no idea, but it was suitable, as the aircraft was a bit of an oddball, which caused numerous issues when the aircraft first arrived.

can you remember what edition that was

G-BYAG crashed, so that on was taken up!! The 763s were to be allocated the G-OBY* series. Q looks too much like O which is why many airlines don’t use Q.

Yeah suppose your right, as they have G-BYAA/B/D/E/F/H/I/J/K/L/N/O/P/R/S/T/U/W/X/Y

Suppose they could have used C/G/M/Q/V/Z though they probably didn’t really want to use G with what happened to it.

Still surprised they didn’t use OBY*

They ran out of the G-BYA* regs. There would only be G-BYAZ and it would notbe logical to go to a letter that wasn’t used, but had been passed.

Yeah I know, Just surprises me they didn’t reregister them starting with -OB or -BY.

G-CDUO and G-CDUP came to Britannia directly form Britannia Sweden where they were SE-DUO and SE-DUP.

Nah, Virgin Suns were the best:

G-VMED – Mediterranean Maiden
G-VTAN – Sunshine Girl
G-VKID – Sundance Kid

What an airline 🙂

Can anyone explain why Monarchs A330s seem so random? G-EOMA and G-SMAN?

Same thing with Britannia, they have a few random ones, G-BRIF/G, G-CDUO/P.

I like Corsair’s 747 regs, typical charter airline
F-GSEX
F-GSUN
F-GSKY

bmi’s A320/1 are ovbious
G-MID*
Why G-DBC* on A319’s i dunno,
G-WWB* on the A330’s i dunno either, but baby’s code is WW so there must be a link there.
Anyone?

Thanks for confirming that DC-10 and Excel, I was sure i’d read that somewhere, nice to know im not going totally mad!

Business Air had reserved all registrations from G-GNTA through to G-GNTZ (TZ was used for our one and only 146). These out of sequence registrations do cost more than having one allocated by the CAA, I can’t remember the figures unfortunately.

The GNT was our three letter ICAO code, as we were based in the Granite City (Aberdeen). As for G-RUNG, it used to be F-GGBV, owned by Aigle Azur and from whom we initially leased the aircraft from, away back in 1995/96. It was then bought by an investment company Shooting Star Investments, and the aircraft was then put onto the UK register. It may have since changed hands – ownership wise, but I believe it went straight from us to Aurigny. As to why G-RUNG – no idea, but it was suitable, as the aircraft was a bit of an oddball, which caused numerous issues when the aircraft first arrived.

However others like MyTravel

G-PIDS
G-MCEA

however they do have G-OMYT and they were going to have G-OMYA.

MyTravel’s reg’s are “chosen” to represent members of their staff. In Airliner World it had a list of reg’s and who they are named after.

LBArules is correct; a contact at Mytravel told me that registrations were derived from employee(usually Director) and their family’s initials?
Could the B767 G-DAJC be registered in line with David Crossland initials?
Monarch seem to mix/match, some a/c follow a theme whereas others appear to be random or follow initials ie:

The 757 fleet

G-MONB/C/D/E
G-DAJB/DRJC

Britannia ( BY ) G-OBYA, G- BYAA, G-BYAL etc

another good reg is the Virgin ones

G-VFOX
G-VTOP
G-VSSS

LBARULES, thats the first I have heard of that theory, previously I hadn’t a clue what they were registered like that for!
THe BA registrations have some kind of a pattern to them in pretty much all cases, and I saw an explanation for everyone once!
Heres what i remember though:

Airbus Fleet:
G-EU** Europe – Nice and simple!

ERJ145 Fleet:
G-EMB* and G-ERJ* Very Obvious

Dash 8 Fleet:
G-BRY* Operated originally by Brymon

Boeing 777 Fleet:
G-VII* VII is Roman for 7
G-YMMM MMM is Roman for 2000 (Year 2000)

And for Aurigny something that Wysiwyg told me:

G-GNT* for the Saabs, they came from Business Air (I think!) whose callsign was Granite. G-RUNG was registered after a Mr Rungsfeld (Again, I think!) who owned or had an interest in the airline.

They are the only ones I can think of at the moment, although as I said I think everything had a reason.

Isn’t MyTravels registration choice something to do with the initials of staff?
They are very strange, e.g- G-PIDS,G-NIKO,G-SMTJ,G-DIMB,G-BYDA.

Astreaus

G-STRA
G-STRB
G-STRC
G-STRD

for some reason they jumped to G-STRZ with their ex av8 757.

What Transavia does, any maybe Astraeus does the same, is register its own planes from A to B, C and so on. However, the planes that are on temporary lease are registered from Z backwards.

Hence PH-XRA/XRB/XRC is owned, PH-XRZ/XRY are leased.

Choosing registrations varies per coutry. In the Netherlands an airline can choose a registration and as long as it has not been taken up yet it is accepted. Some letters seem to be not available because they can be confused with each other. That’s for instance why there is no PH-BXQ, it would be to easy to consfuse it with PH-BXO.

In other countries you get what you are assigned. In Spain for instance you can not choose a registration. That’s why Iberia has no logical system to recognise the plane by the registration. You can do so with, for instance, KLM where every registration starting with a B is a Boeing, every aircraft with an A was (and will be) an airbus etc.

BTW, I was told that getting a “custom” registration costs you more money in NL than when you are just assigned a registration by the RLD (Dutch aviation authorities). If that is true or not I do not know, but knowing the money suckers they are it probably is. 😉