Originally Posted by
bravo24
I believe is was N675UP (ex-AA N9675). According to the FAA database it's still owned by UPS but that doesn't mean they're still flying it.
Interesting that it started as N9675. I always wondered about our plane numbering. One would think that the 747's would be N4xxxup, 757's N5xxxup, A-300's N3XXXup and so on down the line. I wonder if it somehow started with dropping the 9 off of the AA planes and just going from there?