Marty, I can believe it. I have even heard there are people who have never worked a day in their lives, and the government gives them money! Can't beat that.
I like your new N-Number. There is a flight training school here in Austin, TX that uses the initials of the owner as the last two characters of every airplane in the fleet. On busy days around the airport it gets confusing if you are not listening carefully. It sounds like the same plane is in three different places at once. Best, John On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Marty Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just put on my new N numbers, N846MD. I searched the FAA database > until I found the only numbers available to choose for my Coupe that I > liked. I ended up getting N846MD. The 8 and 46 for the Coupe's August, > 1946 birthday, and the MD for my initials, of course (vain, I know, but > maybe someone will think I'm a doctor, as in M.D.!). I taxied across the > runway with the old numbers and taxied back an hour later with the new > ones. I informed the tower controller here at Renton about the new number > and why, and she said they had already guessed what it stood for. The whole > process took a little over a month until they issued me my temporary > certificate, and the best part was that it only cost $5. It's hard to > believe the government would do anything for 5 bucks! You can pick any > available number from the FAA's web site: > http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNAV_inquiry.asp > > You can reserve the number for a year, and then keep renewing it year to > year for $5 per year. My Coupe's original N number is on a sailplane in the > NE and wasn't available, and I was never in love with the N10743 I was > issued when I imported it from Canada in 2004. > > Marty Duke N846MD KRNT > > >
