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Post by flyinkiwi on Jul 13, 2020 15:17:55 GMT 12
Referring Thomarse's post on 25/11/09; the letter Q is in use on New Zealand motor vehicles. The four excluded letters are I, O, V and X. The exception being when those letters are requested on a personalised plate.
NZ plates were definitely issued starting with I, here's proof: A high school friend of mine used to drive a brown 1979 Galant with the plate IZxxxx. It looked almost as bad as the car above but was roadworthy.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jul 13, 2020 21:35:01 GMT 12
ZK-FCQ is still current, now at Wanganui.
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Post by aeromuzz on Jul 14, 2020 9:16:03 GMT 12
NZ plates were definitely issued starting with I, here's proof: I had cars with rego's of JIxxxx and LQxxxx. I can also remember seeing cars with regos starting with I and O. I also remember that Q was skipped and I don't remember seeing those letters being used since that time. So I suspect these numbers stopped being used when the decision was made to skip the Q's. Anyway, back to the main subject...... |
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Post by zkdex on Jul 14, 2020 10:08:20 GMT 12
Interesting discussion...reminds me of that scene from the 1980 movie Airplane!...which probably explains why V Victor is not used for aircraft registrations!
As for motor vehicles...think it was registrations BEGINNING with Q and V that were not used, plus various "offensive" combinations including quite a few beginning with F.
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Post by zkdex on Jul 14, 2020 10:09:36 GMT 12
I should qualify my comment regarding V Victor by saying - not many aircraft regos beginning with V!
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Post by planewriting on Jul 14, 2020 10:48:21 GMT 12
FCQ was definitely a 'Q' branch plane ! - a C152 between ruffly 1982 to 1984 my log says I flew with intrepid Napier instructors J Fulton - A Baig - G Peacock & G Urquart ..........and solo time The letter Q has always been available as a second or third letter. For example; ZK-AAQ was a Bluebird registered in 1929 and ZK-AQA is a Tiger Moth registered in 1947. The thread concerns non-use of Q as the first letter making the QAA - QZZ unavailable. |
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