Gerard M Foley <gfoley@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
>Air tail numbers and radio call signs beginning CA belong to Chile,
>not Canada. Kees is probably right about this Canadian
>misappropriation of Chilean intellectual property, since for many
>years the Canadian Broadcasting Company's stations used call
>signs beginning CB, which also belongs to Chile. The Canadian
>blocks beginning with C run from CF to CK and CY to CZ.. Canada
>also has the blocks VA to VG, VO (formerly Newfoundland), VX to VY,
>XJ to XO and maybe others that I have missed.
Gerard.
Very interesting information, but as Mike Gammon already remarked,
completely beside the point. I was talking about Beechcraft factory
serial numbers, not registration numbers or radio call signs.
Incidentally, a long time ago I was flying around the U.S. in
a Canadian-registered Piper Arrow (C-GYYY if I remember correctly).
When approaching the Grand Canyon Airport in Arizona, the tower
controller asked at which airport in Chile this aircraft was based,
apparently aiming to enter the aircraft in his book of exotic birds.
I had to disappoint him there. But an aircraft based at Toronto
Island Airport and flown by a crew from Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
cannot be bad either.
Kees de Lezenne Coulander
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C.M. de Lezenne Coulander
Aircraft Development and Systems Engineering B.V.
Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
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