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Old Jun 30, 2008 | 4:06 pm
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crhptic
 
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Originally Posted by PCMflyer
Can any decode three AA tail numbers.

I know that American often reports internal fleet numbers to the BTS. I have decoded many of the MD-80's but I can't figure these out. I think some might have been Boeing 727's. But I'm not sure.

N818AA
N2BUAA
N2BSAA

Any help would be appreciated.
You can search FAA N-Numbers here.

Using this tool, the first one comes back to a Dassault Falcon - not an AA plane.

The last two are not valid N-numbers. You can see the criteria here, but in short, as you can have a maximum of two alpha characters at the end of the N-number, the last two clearly are invalid.

Did these come from the side of actual AA planes? If so, my guess is there's a transcription error somewhere.

Also, I assume you know that AA doesn't fly any 727's anymore.
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