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Old December 31st 03, 02:30 AM
Ron Natalie
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"Geoff Miller" wrote in message ...


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."


In Radio callsigns the US got half the A's, the K's, the W's and the N's.
The A and N are for Army and Navy. I have no idea how we settled
on K and W.


Related question: How did Northwest Airlines get "US" as a
registration number suffix?


The suffixes aren't assigned to a particular airline. The airline requests
them when the register the aircraft. Most likely NWA acquired those
particular planes from US Air. You see lots of Continental livery with
xxxPE numbers from the old People Express day.

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Old December 31st 03, 02:43 AM
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"Ron Natalie" wrote
Most likely NWA acquired those particular planes from US Air.


Nope! Northwest was using the US suffix on its first B-720s
back in 1961, long before US Air came into exsistance. Of
course US Air never owned B-720s either.

Bob Moore
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Old January 24th 04, 12:51 AM
Geoff Miller
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Earlier I asked:

: Related question: How did Northwest Airlines get "US" as a
: registration number suffix?


Ron Natalie replies:

The suffixes aren't assigned to a particular airline.
The airline requests them when the register the aircraft.
Most likely NWA acquired those particular planes from US
Air. You see lots of Continental livery with xxxPE
numbers from the old People Express day.


I could've phrased that better: Why did Northwest *request*
the "US" suffix? "PA," "U," "AA," etc., are easy to
understand. But you'd think that Northwest would've gone
with "NW." Maybe they were hoping to edge Pan Am aside
as the pre-eminent U.S. flag carrier eventually.

I first noticed the "US" suffix on Northwest airplanes
(707s, 720s, 727s) in 1971, maybe six months before the
D.B. Cooper hijacking, and since then I've seen lots of
old pictures from the Fifties and early Sixties of DC6s/
7s, Stratocruisers, and Electras in Northwest livery with
registrations ending in "US." It predates USAir by a long
time.



Geoff

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