Just like airplanes, rockets have
unique tail numbers, or codes, that distinguish them from one another.
-- The red airplane in the opening sequence is a 1974 Piper PA -18-150 Super Cub (
tail number N8991Y).
«We include
the tail number of the aircraft so you can look up the history of your plane,» said Dave Hall of MotoArt Studios, «And it will tell you how much the aircraft originally cost, what year it was built and the airlines that flew it.»
(Locals spotted
the tail numbers on his jet.)
It was from a fan who sent
me the tail number of a plane belonging to a prominent booster.
Prior to the press conference, speculation about whether the victim of the crash was Halladay was tied to
the tail number of the plane, which matched that of the plane he owned.
«What I saw when we did some population estimation work several years back before this project, the white -
tail numbers were high in some areas and so were the sika deer numbers.
Apparently someone at the DMV was familiar with
the tail number of the airplane depicted on the cover of the 1986 Beastie Boys album, Licensed to Ill..
He was headed out to sea in the Lady Ashley, a recent - model Block 25 F - 16C,
tail number 216, that had been named after the daughter of his crew chief, Technical Sergeant José Santos.