Thank you for your kind words, its always a big pleasure for me to show you the latest news.
The German system is not very complicated. The planes are registere with "D" for Deutschland = Germany and 4 following letters. The first letter shows always the weight of the plane :
[list=] German Registration System
[*]D-
A aircraft heavier than 20 tons max. startweight
[*]D-
B aircraft max.startweight 14 to 20 tons (for ex a Dash8)
[*]D-
C aircraft max.startweight 5,7 up to 14 tons (Cessna Citation, in former days the SeaFury > D-CACE)
[*]D-
E single engine aircraft max. 2 ton startweight , the so called "Echo"-Class, Pipers, Cessnas and so on
[*]D-
F single engine aircraft from 2 up to 5,7 tons max startweight (for ex. the Pilatus PC-12 and of course the warbirds like the P-51)
[*]D-
G multi engine with max. 2tons startweight
[*]D-
H helicopters
[*]D-
I multiengines 2 up to 5,7 tons max. startweight (for ex. a Cessna 310)
[*]D-
K soraing planes with engine
[*]D-
L in use for "airships" like blimps or the Zeppelin NT
[*]D-
M the so called "ultralights". In Germany they are called "Luftsportgeraete" max startweight 472,5kg (about 900 pounds)
[*]D-
N small and light soaringplanes. Something to jump from hills but the dont really fly like a plane
[*]D-
O all sorts of ballons
[*]D-nnnn soaring planes, "n" stands for a number, will say D- four numbers
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Hope that helps
Btw. you can put your initals in the registration, thats no problem, only the first letter of the registration is reserved. Some regs are really tricky
The Spitfire T9 has got the reg D-FMKN . You can read the last three letters as Mk.IX
The Mustang I took a ride with has the reg D-FPSI .... the "S" looks in some fonts as a "5" , so the reg is to read P51
The Corsair will get the German regh D-FCOR , one of those Yaks got teh reg D-FJAK
The Spitfire Mk.VIIIc has got the reg D-FEUR .... the German word for fire is "FEUER" ... ups they have just forget a letter
The TF-51 project got the reg D-FUNN .... I think you dont need a translation
Btw, last week they opened the season with a fantastic sunsetflight with Spitfire TE184
and the TF-51 with the new revised Merlin
I love those sceneres
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Regards from Germany
Matthias Dorst
(webmaster MeierMotors GmbH/ EDTG)
http://www.meiermotors.com