No Offence To The Owner, But...

[ruddersup?]

CF-DIE is a SEABEE, I'd leave that one alone.

[jeff_w_yeg]

AH HA HA HA HA HA!!!

This is officially my new aircraft registration when I fly on VATSIM on flightsim...ha ha!

Jeff @ YYC

[birdlegs]

Don't thinkI saw it here yet, but Sunwest has a BE20 with the registration F-BOM

[FlowPack]

Sunwest also has a navajo GOHO.

[Sparkfarmer]

Worked on a DHC-6 in Africa registered as 3-XGAY.

[invertedattitude]

Seriously?

Nobody is going to mention C-FSKI

Which skidded off the runway in Fredericton (In the winter)

The Ironing always makes me laugh

[Crobe]

A beaver that Saltspring used to have made me laugh every time I saw it. C-GVPB (C*NT, GASH, V*GINA, P*SSY, BEAVER)

[cl65ame]

At ne point before the crash someone had used black tape and added -DOO to the C-FSKI registration.

[Caracrane]

T236 (CL-215) was one of our fleet that crashed in 1991. Was registered C-GFQA. Couple of years ago, Think it was a L-188 that crashed in western Canada on a fire mission that killed the crew on board. Registration was C-GFQA.

[bronson]

185-CFYCK in NW Ont.

[winds_in_flight_wtf]

Walsten Air Service used to have a Beech 18 that was C-FCUK. Not sure what ever happened to it!

Belongs on an Air Canada 767 now

[C-GGGQ]

What tops it for me is that all the air canada 777's (or at least their initial order) are C-FIT*

[wotai139]

funny

[Rudy]

Not sure if there are any Top Gear fans here.

[laticsdave]

Saw C-FAGZ once. . .I was always glad that wasn't MY ident.

Cherokee out of CZBB (I think). Saw it in YNJ once.....and two guys got out of it

[teacher]

Not sure if it was mentioned yet but there are 2 Jazz DHC8s registered GONR and GONJ, the latter makes me think of a warm Jamaican beach not too sure why?

[Old Dog Flying]

C-FEAR, C-172...I imported it for a customer in Regina 1974-75. It was interesting getting the paper work sorted out.

[arctic navigator]

5 pages and nobody mentioned Simpson Air's 206 C-GPMS

[iflyforpie]

Used to work on a Mooney M20E in Penticton that was C-FAAQ.

A 150 was there as well C-FUEL.

Quite a few Flight Designs CTs in the neighbourhood too with interesting ultralight reges. Like C-IZZY, C-ICEY, and C-ITRI.

[amexinnamon]

A flight school in New Zealand has a whole bunch of 152s: PQP, NAN, DAD, SIS, SON, KID, MUM (mom spelt the british way)

[oldyellr]

I just read through this whole thread (started in 2005!) and it amazes me that aviation registrations don't have the same kind of nanny policing that car registrations do in Ontario. It seems they have a whole team of government funded psychologists vetting custom license plate applications to screen out any possible sexual, political, religious or racial connotations. If that were the case with aircraft registrations, I wonder how many would be banned?

Anyway, my question is, how are aircraft registrations assigned? Can you request them for a price? Do they get sold by owners for big bucks, like car registrations are in the UK?

[Rowdy]

How they ended up next to each other like this..



...is sheer awesomeness

[AaronP]

C-FEAR, C-172...I imported it for a customer in Regina 1974-75. It was interesting getting the paper work sorted out.

Was it this 172?

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=74408

[SheriffPatGarrett]

Checked with my old log books and yes, it was a turbo-beaver based
at Toronto Island and it had the tail number CF-UCK in the sixties...
When the owner hiring me told me first, I had a chill...for a moment, thought the whole think
was a joke, but realized the old General was such a Victorian Puritan that
he never saw or noticed the letters. The other real odd thing was he had the Hertz(Ford) Rent a car dealership
but used only GM products...seem that the GM board was loaded with fellow Generals of the
north Africa campaign...they even sent a company DC-8 one day from Detroit with a box of steaks
to North Bay for a party at his fishing lodge nearby!

Ah! Another funny tail:







Garth Wallace's book about Derry Air:



Then you have:
http://functioningalcoholic.wordpress.com/page/3/

"Dempsey flies to Derry and chauffeur drives 250km to meet him" - Page 15

What currency is pink like that? Zeuros?

[Rowdy]

C-FCUK is right here at YVRs south side...