This might be of use to some

http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/regsearch/findairs.asp

To identify any Australian aircraft.

On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:56:39 +0000, Alan Erskine wrote:

http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/regsearch/findairs.asp

To identify any Australian aircraft.

I'm really glad I didn't have to wait until now to find out about this!!

"Alan Erskine" rudely blurted out
:

http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/regsearch/findairs.asp

To identify any Australian aircraft.




Or try this to identify Aussie Assholes:

"Alan Erskine"

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Here's *my* funny sig from an ABPA thread on 08/16/08:
Alan Erskine says...
"I've got an IQ of 151" "I'm in the 99th percentile
for my age group - that's the top 1 percent"
(nice math there, Einstein!) "I doubt very strongly that you
know anyone in my range of IQ" (Neither do you, Einstein)
Lee discussing newsserver
retention: "...I can go back about 6 months to locate files..."
Alan Erskine interrupts the
discussion with: "Why should we wait for six months to download
an image that was posted yesterday?" --- Yep, a Genius!

Alan Erskine wrote:
http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/regsearch/findairs.asp

To identify any Australian aircraft.



Thanks for the tip, Alan. :-)

Maybe I'm showing off a bit - I have made a really nice graphic front
end for the VH Register.

Screen capture attached.

I usually download the info in its .csv format, import into MS Excel,
then save the data range as Dbase IV .dbf

This all sounds a bit messy but the above takes no more than 5 minutes
(10 at most) to download + convert + add the data file.


Cheers
Graham

TacAN wrote:
Alan Erskine wrote:
http://www.casa.gov.au/casadata/regsearch/findairs.asp

To identify any Australian aircraft.


Thanks for the tip, Alan. :-)

Maybe I'm showing off a bit - I have made a really nice graphic front
end for the VH Register.

Screen capture attached.

I usually download the info in its .csv format, import into MS Excel,
then save the data range as Dbase IV .dbf

This all sounds a bit messy but the above takes no more than 5 minutes
(10 at most) to download + convert + add the data file.


Cheers
Graham

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I should have added that it is possible to extract almost any
combination of data from the records.

Graham

"TacAN" wrote in message
...

I should have added that it is possible to extract almost any combination
of data from the records.

Graham

A mate of mine said he wished it was possible to do the same thing with car
registrations... I reminded him of a little thing called "Road Rage" - he
agreed it might not be that good an idea after all. ;-)

"TacAN" wrote in message
...
TacAN wrote:

I should have added that it is possible to extract almost any
combination of data from the records.

Graham



On a similar note, I sometimes do the same with emails that have ****loads
of recipients in the Cc: field.


I once got one of those useless virus warnings from a supplier. The
dick put his whole address book in the To: field - including fax numbers for
his fax server.

It ****ed me off that I downloaded a 300k message (on dial-up no less), only
to find 5 lines of text about a virus that didn't exist. So I went
into the message source, copied the To: field addresses into Word, replaced
the commas with tabs and imported the whole mess into Excel. Within
5 minutes, I had his entire contact database, his Government contacts,
consultants, customers, my competitors, even a few prospects that he was
working on. There were dozens of people who shouldn't know about
each other - but were on the same list, it was priceless.


Apart from calling a few of his contacts, I emailed the list back to him and
suggested he use the Bcc: field.




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Cheers

Dave Kearton

Alan Erskine wrote:
"TacAN" wrote in message
...

I should have added that it is possible to extract almost any combination
of data from the records.

Graham

A mate of mine said he wished it was possible to do the same thing with car
registrations... I reminded him of a little thing called "Road Rage" - he
agreed it might not be that good an idea after all. ;-)



I wonder why aircraft registrations are so freely available & car rego's
aren't?
(not advocating the release of car rego etc ..)

Aircraft details are a bit more intimate than cars.


Graham

Dave Kearton wrote:
"TacAN" wrote in message


Apart from calling a few of his contacts, I emailed the list back to him and
suggested he use the Bcc: field.


Some potential there for additional income, Dave.
Could have made a quid or two. ;-p

Graham

"TacAN" wrote in message
...

I wonder why aircraft registrations are so freely available & car rego's
aren't?
(not advocating the release of car rego etc ..)

Aircraft details are a bit more intimate than cars.


Graham

I don't know. I would have thought in these days of hightened security
regarding aircraft of all types....

Any way, it's there and it's good to be able to trace an aircraft to the
source, including finding out what it is.