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[9M-TKS]

I heard it's a new feature, but I'm curious to know: How will we assign the registrations? Eg will we assign them when we order aircraft?

[LLC]

I heard it's a new feature, but I'm curious to know: How will we assign the registrations? Eg will we assign them when we order aircraft?

they get changed all of the time

also if a US airline orders a airbus aircraft it has a F-xxxx registration for the ferry flight to the USA,
then it is changed to a Nxxxxx registration

I looked in the book 'Airbus A320' (ISBN 0-7603-0902-7) and on pages 96 ~ 122
it has a production list of airbus aircraft (A320, A321, A319) with the Line No,
First flight date, Operator, and Known identities (Fate) listing all nown registration Nos for that aircraft

the aircraft with the most registrations is:

#437 , A320-231 , 24 June 1993 , Fly FTI , F-WWDM, N437RX, G-BVJV, C-FWOQ, G-BVJV, N437RX, G-BVJV, G-EPFR, C-GTDF, G-EPFR, D-AFRO

[Conor]

D-AFRO

[Alistasia]

I hope you will be able to reserve a sequence of registrations.
E.G. F-ABCA to F-ABCZ

[Sheepy]

That would result in people reserving F-AAAA to F-ZZZZ

[sviridovt]

I think you should be able to have registrations in the same way that they are done in real world which is (as far as I know and I could be wrong)

Airline A (US): code: AA registration reserved: NxxxxAA

Airline B (US) code: DC registration reserved: NxxxxDC

Airline C (France) code: EA registration reserved: F-xxxxx

Airline D (Germany) code RG registration reserved D-xxxxx

Airline E (Germany) code DF registration reserved D-xxxxx

if Airline A sells to Airline B registration stays the same (even though the reserved code is different)

If Airline D sells to Airline E registration stays the same

If Airline A or B sell to Airline C, D , or E or opposite, registration changes according to that airlines/countries reserved code

{For future planned updates:} if Airline B bought a plane but cancelled order and Airline A, C, D, or E bought the aircraft. registration code still is of that airline/country that the plane was delivered to (because the plane was never delivered to Airline

so basically if the plane got delivered to an airline and they sell it to another one in the same country, registration stays the same

if the plane gets delivered and that airline sells it to another airline outside the country, registration code changes to the receiving airline's country/airline registration

if the plane never got delivered then the registration is of the country/airline of that airline

hopefully you are still with me, but you can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia....ft_registration

Thanks, Tim

[sviridovt]

I hope you will be able to reserve a sequence of registrations.
E.G. F-ABCA to F-ABCZ

what if they go out of that "limit"? and get more planes than that limits allows

I think there should be no reservations except for US because thats how it is with aircraft reservations in US

In US it goes like: N1[airline code]-N999[airline code]

[Sheepy]

I can see reserving up to 8 registrations as possible, but any more than that wouldn't work. I am against any sort of mass reservation either, as suggested above. And quite frankly, registration in the U.S. only is ridiculously biased, and annoys those of us who prefer a slightly harder game
Most countries also register their planes as AA-AAA (A being a letter), another point against mass reservations.

[sviridovt]

I can see reserving up to 8 registrations as possible, but any more than that wouldn't work. I am against any sort of mass reservation either, as suggested above. And quite frankly, registration in the U.S. only is ridiculously biased, and annoys those of us who prefer a slightly harder game
Most countries also register their planes as AA-AAA (A being a letter), another point against mass reservations.

I agree, just use the airline code for US airlines and be done, the rest of the airlines get a registration following format: [country code]-[registration letters]

[Sheepy]

U.S. doesn't always have the airline code, or it may be different.

[sviridovt]

U.S. doesn't always have the airline code, or it may be different.

true, but most commonly it is

Alot of the time it is the airline code of the airline that originally bought the plane (ie: alot of delta planes have registration NxxxxNW because these planes they got from Delta-NWA merger)

[sviridovt]

I think the code should be by base country at first like for america is N then the airlines IATA code like United airlines could be UA, then a series of numbers or letters.
for e.g. N-UAHHJK

that's not really how it works in US though

[Stevphfeniey]

Its N123XX in the US mostly

[bolli]

Quite a few countries its X-XXXX or XX-XXX

[sviridovt]

Its N123XX in the US mostly

yes I know

[sviridovt]

Quite a few countries its X-XXXX or XX-XXX

actually thats how it is in most of the countries, I think its just US that has it CNNNXX

where C is the country code
N is the registration number
X is the airline code/other code

[bolli]

I don't think we will run out at all. There are almost limitless combinations that you can use.