Foreign Aircraft N-Numbers

How did the United States ever draw "N" as a registration
number prefix, anyway? You'd think it would be "U" for
"United States," or "A" for "America."

Related question: How did Northwest Airlines get "US" as a
registration number suffix? It seems more likely that if
any carrier would've gotten the letters that stood for the
name of the country, it would've been Pan Am (had they not
gone for "PA," of course).



Geoff

--
"While everyone was delighted that P.J. had finally spoken
his first words, 'Give me back my zweiback, cock-gobbler'
was eventually deemed unfit for the baby book."
-- lizmo the Wonder Horse