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Old Dec 5, 2006 | 7:17 pm
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Originally Posted by rmatley
I was wondering what the relationship was between the nose number that you see above the front landing gear, and the plane's registration?
None whatsoever. Nose numbers are used internally by UA to distinguish things like 777XP vs 777XC vs 777XI vs 777D.
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