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03-30-2008, 07:43 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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N Number Superstition
In seeing the recent post abot the RV-8 accident in Florida I was wondering. Is anybody superstitious in picking their N number. I know the N-number I originally wanted previously was assigned to an aircraft destroyed in an accident. I was superstitious enough to pick a different number. Am I unusual, or did anyone else check out the history of their N number before they made a final choice?
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03-30-2008, 07:51 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Cedar Park, TX
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Actually...
perhaps it would be "safer" to KEEP that number. What are the odds of two aircraft with the same N number going down ?
No sense based in logic, of course, but like you said, superstitious.
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03-30-2008, 08:08 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Numbers are numbers, they don't mean a thing.
I would stay away from N666, any number with 13, make sure the number is not a day in the year of a death of a family member or a date in which a similar plane crashed, check to see what the number spells using a touch tone key pad, have I covered everything? Where is my rabbits foot! (Not lucky for the rabbit) 
(Knocking on wood and thowing salt over my shoulder.)
I think I'll head out in the yard and look for a 4 leaf clover.
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Last edited by Geico266 : 03-30-2008 at 08:14 AM.
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03-30-2008, 08:11 AM
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Better yet to not do things that will kill you. The majority of accidents are due to pilot error and are therfor preventable.
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03-30-2008, 08:40 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Savannah, GA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron Lee
Better yet to not do things that will kill you. The majority of accidents are due to pilot error and are therfor preventable.
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So picking a unlucky N number would be pilot error and therefore preventable!
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RV-10 Vesta V8 LS2/BMA EFIS/One formerly flying at 3J1 Hobbs stopped at 150 hours
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03-30-2008, 08:48 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Saint Simons Island , GA
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triple 6
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I would stay away from N666, any number with 13, make sure the number is not a day in the year of a death of a family member or a date in which a similar plane crashed, check to see what the number spells using a touch tone key pad, have I covered everything? Where is my rabbits foot! (Not lucky for the rabbit)
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When I bought my -8 it was 666M. Didn't really bother me but the people on the ramp would always run when I taxied up. It was a devil of a way to arrive..
The guy who registered it did so because it was easy to say "Tripple SIx Mike" on the radio.
When I relinquished it JJJ LLC picked it up and it's now on a Pilatus PC12 based in Riverside CA. The Devil by the Deep Blue Sea
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RV 8, N8JL, 3,000+ hours on my 8.
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Saint Simons Island, GA. KSSI
PIF 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
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03-30-2008, 12:00 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Warner Robins, GA
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Old Blue
N666RV is Vans 6A demonstrator. I went for a demo ride in it in 2001 at SNF. That ride caused me to "sell my soul" to the RV lifestyle.
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03-30-2008, 09:03 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Omaha, NE
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Not to change subjects...but...
Larry,
Sorry to change the subject but I'm really curious: are you invovled with Civil War Reenacting?
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Originally Posted by Geico266
Numbers are numbers, they don't mean a thing.
I would stay away from N666, any number with 13, make sure the number is not a day in the year of a death of a family member or a date in which a similar plane crashed, check to see what the number spells using a touch tone key pad, have I covered everything? Where is my rabbits foot! (Not lucky for the rabbit)
(Knocking on wood and thowing salt over my shoulder.)
I think I'll head out in the yard and look for a 4 leaf clover. |
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Location: Omaha, NE
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03-31-2008, 08:00 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Can't find website site to look up history
A while ago I came across a site that showed all aircraft that ever had been registered w/ a specific N-number. Can't find it now - anyone know where it is? Thanks!
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03-31-2008, 08:15 AM
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