Wednesday, April 18, 2012

A rose by any other name.

Another thing left unsettled over the winter was the n-number. FAA rules say you can make up your own n-number but the letters can only be on the last two spaces, and it could not start with a 0.

All the good versions of __SK were taken, I tried several number sequences and finally settled on 615MK, for my birthday (61) and 5MK as a stylized version of my initials.

But I kept hearing grumblings from OspRey, she just didn't like the n-number. I asked her one day and she told me it was because it wasn't HER name, it was mine. And by coincidence MK was also Einar's wife initial's Michelle Ketilsson. I knew I had to make a change.

It was at Sun n Fun that I started mulling some other options, and it was there in front of my face: 05PY. OSPreY. 105PY was taken by a balloon, but 305PY, 705PY and 805PY were available. After talking it over OspRey got her new n-number reserved, N805PY.


Today was spent at the hangar taking the hull off the frame and thinking about where to go from here. Plans are afoot.

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