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Alas, I find myself beaten, battered, scarred, completely worn out, a broken man, and yet still empty-handed, after putting forth a valiant and long-fought effort to find this reg, only to be continually snubbed at every turn:



So now, with 5 minutes of my life irrecoverably (<--- hey, I didn't know that was a word!) gone, I turn it over to you, the steadfast and loyal degenerates of NAS, while I endeavor to recover from my quest!

Nah, seriously, no big deal, I'm more curious now that anything. Obviously it's a very small part of a photo....

Oh?

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=5454Q&x=26&y=15

http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N5454Q.html

Were you in Michigan?

GQfluffy wrote:Were you in Michigan?

That's why I was so confused! I found that reg, and no, I was nowhere near Michigan. It was taking off from Torrance Municipal (TOA).

I tried every possibility that I could think of that could look like that:

N54540
N5454Q
N54S40
N54S4Q
N54S4O (do they use the letter O in regs?)
N5454O

etc...

I found the one in Michigan, and another in Washington, and another in Texas. Flightaware had recent flights for the ones in WA and TX (which took place in, you guessed it, WA and TX), but not for the one in Michigan.

Funny thing is, I have absolutely no need of that reg. The shot is an airport overview. I was just going to put the reg in the comments. But once I started looking and couldn't find it, I got slightly obsessed.

Thanks for the help!

Guess who just found the yellow Cessna!

This guy!

N5353Q

But then I actually looked at more than just "oh my gosh, small, yellow-ish Cessna," and was disappointed.

From my experience, FlightAware doesn't even nearly show every movement of every aircraft. I have tracked aircraft in the past that had significant gaps in their flight history.

N5454Q is a Cessna 150L, which seems to fit. Looks like the owner made a cross-country flight with it. Maybe he sold it to somebody in CA.

N5464Q

You're welcome

Zak wrote:From my experience, FlightAware doesn't even nearly show every movement of every aircraft. I have tracked aircraft in the past that had significant gaps in their flight history.

FlightAware only shows IFR flights, which means that GA aircraft tend to not show up very often at all. It can also mean some very busy airports tend to look slow on FlightAware.

Zak wrote:N5454Q is a Cessna 150L, which seems to fit. Looks like the owner made a cross-country flight with it. Maybe he sold it to somebody in CA.

Yeah, but it's red.

vikkyvik wrote:(do they use the letter O in regs?)

The letters I and O are not allowed in US registrations.

JLAmber wrote:N5464Q

You're welcome

Could be. Is that a "5", a "6", or an "S" in the reg? That and the "Q" were the ones that were throwing me off.

Thanks!