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[slogen51]

New blog about a forgotten registration issue. (reg with + in them).
Please take a read and share you thoughts.

https://k6thebaldgeek.blogspot.com/2025 ... ation.html

Thanks, I see your logic and would be inclined to agree that keeping that “+” in the reg would be important - from my experience it is only German airforce aircraft that have it (happy to be corrected).

The site search doubling as an airframe lookup is something I use often so have noticed it and it’s been very helpful!

I know traditionally spotters include a '+' when recording German military serials 46+44 or 10+03 but really the '+' is a representation of the Iron Cross insignia and probably not part of the official serial? I don't know this for sure but when you look at acars messages the aircraft id is referred to as 1003 in the case of a GAF A359 for example.

[thebaldgeek]

I know traditionally spotters include a '+' when recording German military serials 46+44 or 10+03 but really the '+' is a representation of the Iron Cross insignia and probably not part of the official serial? I don't know this for sure but when you look at acars messages the aircraft id is referred to as 1003 in the case of a GAF A359 for example.

Thanks for the feedback.
On HFDL ACARS it has the + on satcom it does not.
Its this sort of variability that has been breaking my brain since I started down the ACARS rabbit hole.
I'm still tempted to have a hidden database of registrations with no - or + and use that for my site.