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AF Serial Number 06-6161, a C-17A Globemaster III. In the United States, all military aircraft display a serial number to identify individual aircraft. These numbers are located on the aircraft tail, so they are sometimes referred to unofficially as "tail numbers". On the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit bomber, lacking a tail, the number appears on ...
Geographic map of registration prefixes. An aircraft registration is a code unique to a single aircraft, required by international convention to be marked on the exterior of every civil aircraft. The registration indicates the aircraft's country of registration, and functions much like an automobile license plate or a ship registration.
4L-AAA to 4L-ZZZ. 4L-10000 to 4L-99999. Germany. D [ 3 ] D-AAAA to D-AZZZ for aircraft with more than 20 t MTOW. D-AUAA to D-AZZZ (test registrations) for aircraft manufactured by Airbus at Finkenwerder. D-BAAA to D-BZZZ for aircraft with 14–20 t MTOW. D-CAAA to D-CZZZ for aircraft with 5.7–14 t MTOW. D-EAAA to D-EZZZ for single-engine ...
XR220, a BAC TSR-2, 1960s. United Kingdom military aircraft registration number, known as its serial number, or tail code is a specific aircraft registration scheme used to identify individual military aircraft in the United Kingdom (UK). All UK military aircraft are allocated and display a unique registration number.
A military service number of the Regular Army. Service numbers were used by the United States Army from 1918 until 1969. Prior to this time, the Army relied on muster rolls as a means of indexing enlisted service members while officers were usually listed on yearly rolls maintained by the United States War Department.
Selective Service System. The Selective Service System (SSS) is an independent agency of the United States government that maintains a database of registered male U.S. citizens and other U.S. residents potentially subject to military conscription (i.e., the draft). Although the U.S. military is currently an all-volunteer force, registration is ...
This list is only of aircraft that have an article, indexed by aircraft registration "tail number" (civil registration or military serial number). The list includes aircraft that are notable either as an individual aircraft or have been involved in a notable accident or incident or are linked to a person notable enough to have a stand-alone Wikipedia article.
Contents. Service number (United States Armed Forces) Service number s were used by the United States Department of Defense as the primary means of service member identification from 1918 until 1974 (and before 1947 by the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy). Service numbers are public information available under the Freedom of Information Act, unlike ...