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From: andrew@postmod.UUCP (Andrew J Richardson)
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Subject: Re: Shuttle
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Date: 16 Jan 91 16:36:49 GMT
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In article , Mary Shafer writes:

-> They can't.  NASA is a federal agency and isn't subject to FAA
-> requirements.  FAA only governs private aviation, not public.  Of
-> course, we go along with a lot of it, including sticking N numbers
-> on our fighters, but that's because we have to interact with them.

N numbers on fighters?  whenever we deal with any military aircraft (every
day), they either use a mission callsign (i.e. HOUND12, SPRIT55) or the
unit designator plus a/c number (i.e. HT343, DI274).  of course there are
the flights which use the branch name and 5 digits, M12345 or A1.

not that N numbers don't exist for fighters, but in the enroute center i work
at, we run a fair volume of military traffic and i've never run across N
numbers.


---andrew

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