Why did you pick your N Number ?

[gclark]

Boy, this is a really popular thread. Guess almost everyone has some
N number story.
We have two: First N905RG for our 1997 RV-6 was devised from the date my wife, Rachel and I met, September (9) fourth (04), plus our two initials, ladies first of course. Next was real easy for our 2007 RV7-A, Just add one number, N906RG Keeps it simple.
Giles and Rachel Clark

[David Richardson]

N434DR

I was in the 434th TFS at George AFB in the 70's

[dlloyd3]

After 5500 hours in 114PL, by rote 4PL will be easy to say. 2nd in the PL series. P is for Penny of course.

[burgundyja]

It is a 8 for mike.

[Greg Reese]

Had an RV6. Sold it' Bought an 8. Plus my initials N628GR.

[B Cunningham]

It's a "7" and the first buno of a series (I hope) VF is familiar to the Navy & Marines out there... also Vans Air "F"orce. I'd like to think its also "very fast".

[Bullseye]

N999ZA. At first, I wanted something that was going to be short and sweet on the radio, but the more I thought about it, I want something recognizable on the radio. "November-niner-niner-niner-zulu-alpha" is long, but very recognizable. ATC will undoubtedly shorten it to "niner-zulu-alpha."

Also, I like ?november triple-niner zulu alpha.? I would never suggest to any of my students that they use unapproved pronunciations of callsigns, but c?mon, it just sounds cool.

As an aside, I got my commercial and CFI-A tickets in N9991B. I always pronounced every character individually, until the controllers in the area started calling me ?triple-niner.?

Is that permission for me to do it, too? No. Am I going to? Yes.

N74ZA. <sigh> I reserved this one because everyone seems to like their model number, followed by a 4, and then their initials (or wife?s initials, or kids initials, etc.). N74ZA was available, so I might as well reserve it while I can. I like the shorter number, but I am still leaning towards triple-niner-zulu-alpha.

[dhall_polo]

More importantly, happy birthday to my daughter.
Today - May 17.
My N-number: N517DG.

I chose my n-number primarily because May 17 is my daughter's birthday. I started taking flying lessons shortly after she was born, so both she and my pilot log book are now 9 years old. Half of her life before age 8 was spent watching me build an airplane. Happy Birthday Abby! I learned after my second daughter was born on the 17th of November that 17 must be my lucky number. Never had a lucky anything before that.

D is for me. G is for my wife. The whole family gets a piece of this n-number.

I'm happy to report success so far in programming my kids to share the joy of aviation and rv-ing. Here's a pic of me flying with the 517 kid in the 517 airplane.



Here's a pic of my 3 girls and the mistress. Abby and I flew into Osh together last year. Paul - notice that nice looking -8 in the background?

[prporter]

...does anyone know who Bob Nichols is at the SBS Program Office? He has many, many of the cool N numbers reserved for him/or whomever. Does he work for the FAA? What is the SBS? His purge dates are 99/99/9999, and the type of registration says, "no fee". Does he just scoop them up so nobody else can have them? for example, go to the registry and type in N290KT. This is one was reserved 09/11/2003, going on seven years. This is one of the many he has reserved.

[SHIPCHIEF]

Pretty slow around here...
So I'll pitch in:
I'm building an "8", the wife is building a "9" and sort of petered out, waiting for me to finish it. SE are my initials.
I really wanted a 2 digit, 2 letter N number, shorter would even be better, but 8SE is already taken.