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Old October 11th 05, 12:14 PM
Dylan Smith
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On 2005-10-11, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
But not all. People still call their plane registration 'their N-number'
when it's something like N23AD even though the last two characters are
letters.


You still don't understand. Every US registration has numbers, that's why
they call them N-numbers.


So which base are they in? And if they aren't base 10, why can't we call
Canadian registrations C-numbers?

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