{"id":242,"date":"2009-07-12T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=242"},"modified":"2009-07-12T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T18:54:08","slug":"n-number-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"N-Number update."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, one should keep up on one&#8217;s FAA registration number reservation.  I didn&#8217;t, and I lost N808FX to an Aerospatiale helicopter owned by Wells Fargo.   That was kind of a bummer.   But I got a better one:  N313TD.   313TD is cool in two ways, first and most importantly, it&#8217;s not a tongue-twister on the comm.  &#8220;Three One Three Tango Delta&#8221; is linguistically less laborious than &#8220;Eight Zero Eight Foxtrot X-Ray.&#8221;  The other cool thing is 313 is Detroit&#8217;s area code, and was Ann Arbor&#8217;s before the suburban explosion of the 90&#8217;s and the accompanying telco deregulation and infrastructure upgrades.  &#8220;TD&#8221; is short for &#8216;technical director&#8217; which is what I&#8217;ve been doing in the FX business for a long time, and I&#8217;ve got screen cred to prove it.   So there it is.  New N-number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, one should keep up on one&#8217;s FAA registration number reservation. I didn&#8217;t, and I lost N808FX to an Aerospatiale helicopter owned by Wells Fargo. That was kind of a bummer. But I got a better one: N313TD. 313TD is cool in two ways, first and most importantly, it&#8217;s not a tongue-twister on the comm. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}