Airline N Numbers - Page 6

TonyWilliams · 11-02-2009, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by TonyWilliams

During this era, the U.S. had complete rights to the radio letters N and W, and to combinations of K from KDA to KZZ. Why these particular letters? The assignments of W and K appear to have been arbitrary, according to articles on early radio call signs by Thomas H. White. In the case of N, Whites notes that the U.S. Navy had used this radio letter since November 1909.

I'm pretty sure that K stood for Kaiser, and W for Westinghouse. N, obviously for Navy.

sinsilvia666 · 11-02-2009, 02:45 PM

On USAir 737's I believe the ORIGINAL ones they got from Boeing all ended with the letters AU, chemical symbol for gold, kind of like their new "gold makers"

NxxxAU

CHQ Pilot · 11-02-2009, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TrojanCMH

Chautauqua's older planes mostly end with SK. RP is the newer birds. Don't know where the SK came from.

The SK comes from Skyways Aviation which is a leasing company. I believe they are/were tied to Wexford at come point. I believe they are based overseas if I remember correctly.

Baronpilot · 11-03-2009, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by brewpilot

I think we have a couple but.... N202SR, SR is for Chuck senior

Colgan also has N362PX (Airways Saab) which I think they just never bothered to renumber. I believe it was originally a Pinnacle bird. The rest of the Saabs are all CJ or MJ which, as explained earlier, stand for Colgan's founders Charles J Colgan and Michael J Colgan. The Q400s are WQ...I have no idea what that stands for.

Emb170man · 11-03-2009, 10:46 AM

At Shuttle America our 170's are all RW

the 175's are all JQ

There are two exceptions.

N979RP is a blue tail a/c that used to be on the Chautaqua certificate

N958WH is a 175 that Bedford decided to not name in sequence ( we have 201JQ, 202JQ, 203JQ, 204JQ, 206JQ...etc but no 205JQ...the a/c that would have been 205 was instead numbered 958WH as a 50th birthday present for Bedfords henchman Wayne Heller. (9=Sept 58= 1958 WH= Wayne Heller who's birthday happens to be Sept 1958.) Nothing like being too cheap to buy your buddy a 50th birthday present and instead "naming a plane after him".

FlyingDawg · 11-03-2009, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by CHQ Pilot

The SK comes from Skyways Aviation which is a leasing company. I believe they are/were tied to Wexford at come point. I believe they are based overseas if I remember correctly.

Actually the Chautauqua aircraft that have SK were financed by Solitair Kapital a LLC subsidiary of Wexford Capital.

CHQ Pilot · 11-04-2009, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by FlyingDawg

Actually the Chautauqua aircraft that have SK were financed by Solitair Kapital a LLC subsidiary of Wexford Capital.

You're right. That was the name I was trying to think of. I remembered it had a Scandinavian type name and was owned by Wexford. Skyways was giving me a mental block. Solitaire was the name I was trying to think of.

higherflyer · 11-04-2009, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by FlyingDawg

Actually the Chautauqua aircraft that have SK were financed by Solitair Kapital a LLC subsidiary of Wexford Capital.

What

! You mean that SK didn't mean Skywest was buying the company! You're just making things up now

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