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Chinese registration numbers

  • 02-05-2011 11:01am
    #1
    Andrew33
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    Just bagged my first Cathay going over Dublin, B-LIE which started a train of thought going. The vast majority of reg's worldwide are 5 digits (in some format). Why do China use 4 for their "alpha" regs and 5+ digits for their numerical regs, on that point, why do they use two different formats at all? B-ABC etc and B-1234 etc. It's nothing to do with domestic/international carriers (I don't think so anyway).


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  • #2
    IrishB.ie
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    Have a look here. Its a pretty good explanation of how aircraft registration works. That aircraft you seen is registered in Hong Kong (China) rather that mainland China.

    While reading it, I didn't realise that it seems to be, if using numeric after the initial country reg, you use 5 digits or 4 letters. Might be to do with A^n and 1^n . Interesting.


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