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By Eddy Metcalf |
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July 20, 2010 – In an effort to create a more accurate aircraft registration database, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is requiring re-registration of all civil aircraft over the next three years and renewal every three years after that. The rule establishes specific expiration dates over a three-year period for all aircraft registered before Oct. 1, 2010, and requires re-registration of those aircraft according to a specific schedule. All aircraft registration certificates issued on or after Oct. 1, 2010 will be good for three years with the expiration date clearly shown.
“These
improvements will give us more up-to-date registration data and better
information about the state of the aviation industry,” said FAA
Administrator Randy Babbitt. |
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Current
regulations require owners to report the sale of an aircraft, the
scrapping or destruction of an aircraft, or a change in mailing address,
but many owners have not complied with those requirements.
Re-registration of all An aircraft registration is a unique alphanumeric string that identifies a civil aircraft, in similar fashion to a license plate on an automobile. In accordance with the Convention on International Civil Aviation all aircraft must be registered with a national authority (such as the FAA or Transport Canada), and furthermore, they must carry proof of this registration in the form of a legal document called a Certificate of Registration at all times when in operation. Most countries also require the aircraft registration to be imprinted on a permanent fireproof plate mounted on the fuselage for the purposes of post-fire, post-crash aircraft accident investigation.
Because airplanes
typically display their registration numbers on the aft fuselage just
forward of the tail, in earlier times more often on the tail itself, the
registration is often referred to as the "tail number". In the |
Although each
aircraft registration is unique, some, but not all countries allow it to
be re-used when the aircraft has been sold, destroyed or retired. For
example N3794N is assigned to a Mooney M20F. It had been previously
assigned to a Beechcraft Bonanza (specifically, the aircraft in which
Buddy Holly was killed). Also note that an individual aircraft may be
assigned different registrations during its existence. This can be
because the aircraft changes ownership, state of registration, or in
some countries, like the
The schedule for re-registration and registration expiration is:
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