Originally Posted by
EWR764
I get what you're saying, but multitude of apps available for that purpose now make things much easier, with the benefit of being able to go back into the flight's history to find a tail you might have forgotten to note, or other carriers, including foreign.
I think the point is that if the tail numbers had some pattern embedded into them, you wouldn’t need an app/lookup table to decipher.
There is something to be said about being able to look at a number and be able to get information from it without whipping out an app or going to a website to look up something.