What is the N number of a plane?
What is the N number of a plane? In the United States, the registration number is commonly referred to as an N number, because all aircraft registered there have a number starting with the letter N. An alphanumeric system is used because of the large numbers of aircraft registered in the United States.
Can you tell who owns a plane by the tail number?
Aircraft registration is public information in the USA, making it easy to find a locate and track a US-registered plane by it's tail number, and find out who owns it.