Originally Posted by remyontheroad

To add to the growing pile of idle speculations, I'll ask when the OP realized that that reg number was assigned to the flight - maybe it had been a different plane altogether up until 5 mins before he checked and that plane went MX and someone said - hey we got N839MH sitting here... I just gotta change the spark plugs and polish the whitewalls and we can get her out the door. Pencil her in.