While critical concerns like engine condition and airworthiness top the list for aircraft buyers, many pilots prioritize custom registration numbers for ease of communication, personal meaning, or ...

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For many of us, when we see a beautiful airplane on the ramp, we look up the N-number on our phone to see who the owner might be. Just idle curiosity. But some private aircraft owners are very private ...

Air Mobility Command has directed its refueling and cargo planes to obscure the majority of identifying information painted on the aircraft, citing national security concerns -- an unusual move that ...

display came this purported image of Air Force One, both pictures offering none-too-subtle allusions to the racial background of President Barack Obama. In this case the tail number of the airplane ...