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October 23rd 03, 03:57 AM
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Aircraft registration ???
Saw a helicopter over the week end with the following registration.
5N-RAA When I tried to look this up in the FAA data base is states that you can not register aircraft with more than 2 alpha characters. If so, could this be some sort of government aircraft. I do seem to rememebr seeing some sort of small decal referring to the "government" TIA Ludlow Johnson Tomball, TX 
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October 23rd 03, 04:07 AM
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"Ludlow Johnson" wrote:
Saw a helicopter over the week end with the following registration. 5N-RAA When I tried to look this up in the FAA data base is states that you can not register aircraft with more than 2 alpha characters. If so, could this be some sort of government aircraft. I do seem to rememebr seeing some sort of small decal referring to the "government" It's not a US (FAA) registration. I did a Google on "aircraft registration 5N" and it appears that your helicopter is from Nigeria.
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#3
October 23rd 03, 07:29 AM
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Ludlow Johnson wrote in message . ..
Saw a helicopter over the week end with the following registration. 5N-RAA When I tried to look this up in the FAA data base is states that you can not register aircraft with more than 2 alpha characters. 5N is one prefix for Nigeria...... Craig C.
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October 23rd 03, 05:50 PM
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Craig wrote:
Ludlow Johnson wrote in message . .. Saw a helicopter over the week end with the following registration. 5N-RAA When I tried to look this up in the FAA data base is states that you can not register aircraft with more than 2 alpha characters. 5N is one prefix for Nigeria...... Interesting - 5N is also an amateur radio callsign prefix for Nigeria. Is this a general rule? Are the two prefix systems indeed related? - Bo
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#5
October 23rd 03, 06:26 PM
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"Robert Lyons" wrote in message ... Interesting - 5N is also an amateur radio callsign prefix for Nigeria. Is this a general rule? Are the two prefix systems indeed related? It's not strictly related, obviously as canada is C- and not VE, etc.. but a lot of it's the same, especially once you get out of the British Commonwealth and the other LARGE countries.
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October 23rd 03, 07:57 PM
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"Ludlow Johnson" wrote in message ... Saw a helicopter over the week end with the following registration. 5N-RAA When I tried to look this up in the FAA data base is states that you can not register aircraft with more than 2 alpha characters. If so, could this be some sort of government aircraft. I do seem to rememebr seeing some sort of small decal referring to the "government" 5N is Nigerian registry.
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#7
October 23rd 03, 08:00 PM
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"Craig" wrote in message om... 5N is one prefix for Nigeria...... One prefix for Nigeria? According to FAA Handbook 7340.1 it's the only one.
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#8
October 24th 03, 07:11 AM
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message link.net...
"Craig" wrote in message om... 5N is one prefix for Nigeria...... One prefix for Nigeria? According to FAA Handbook 7340.1 it's the only one. Check the database on landings.com and they show VR as another ICAO recognized prefix for Nigeria. It may be that the VR's are being phased out or converted to 5N's over time though. Craig C.
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#9
October 24th 03, 12:13 PM
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Every time I try to view the www.landings.com web site, Somebody wants me to
down load the evird.acgi file, about 5 times. I have checked this file and the nearest I can tell it is an Apple file. My Windows XP-Pro does not like this file and will not go any further. I do have proper virus protection, fire wall and Google 2.0 pop up running. I can view some of the page through Goggle's cache but the next move causes this file "evird" to start the down loading process. Is this a cookie installer, any ideas?. I am trying to find out the status of a dear old friend of mine, N9965B Thanks for any help Pat Thronson "Craig" wrote in message om... "Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message link.net... "Craig" wrote in message om... 5N is one prefix for Nigeria...... One prefix for Nigeria? According to FAA Handbook 7340.1 it's the only one. Check the database on landings.com and they show VR as another ICAO recognized prefix for Nigeria. It may be that the VR's are being phased out or converted to 5N's over time though. Craig C.
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#10
October 24th 03, 04:10 PM
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Pat,
You can search directly from the FAA site: http://162.58.35.241/acdatabase/acmain.htm BTW, your old friend is in the coldest spot in the lower 48! Karl
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