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andrewarles

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Basic Hex code questions
« on: August 15, 2010, 02:28:27 PM »
Hi,

Sorry, but I have some very basic questions that I would like to clarify:

-   The HEX codes on the US register are allocated to a registration and not to a particular aircraft.  Therefore, when an aircraft changes registration, whether it stays in that country or not, its HEX code will change, is that correct?
-   If so, is the HEX code deleted from the db, or does it stay in the db with an empty type field awaiting a new allocated aircraft?
-   Do these rules apply to every country?

Thanks

Andrew
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Re: Basic Hex code questions
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2010, 03:37:19 PM »
Sorry, but I have some very basic questions that I would like to clarify:

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The HEX codes on the US register are allocated to a registration and not to a particular aircraft.  Therefore, when an aircraft changes registration, whether it stays in that country or not, its HEX code will change, is that correct?

Correct.

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If so, is the HEX code deleted from the db, or does it stay in the db with an empty type field awaiting a new allocated aircraft?

AFAIK, aircraft removed from the US register are not automatically deleted from the database - in fact the DB shipped with RadarBox contains lots of examples of aircraft deregistered many years ago.

If an N-number is subsequently re-used, then I would expect the updaters to pick that up sooner or later, but with only about a third of available N-numbers in use at any one time there is no guarantee that a tail number will ever be re-used.

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Do these rules apply to every country?

No.  Although many countries do it that way, it's contrary to ICAO recommendations, which say that a hex code should only change when an aircraft is re-registered in another country.

The UK, of course, does it correctly - if an aircraft changes from one G- mark to another G- mark, it keeps its hex code.
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andrewarles

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Re: Basic Hex code questions
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2010, 04:43:58 PM »
Dave,

Thanks for your reply.

I was updating the RadarBox database, and wondering whether I should delete all the out of date records, and there are a lot of them.

Rgds

Andrew
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Re: Basic Hex code questions
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2010, 05:36:43 PM »
It also doesnt help that there are hundreds of aircraft flying about using their old hex code especially in America