Aviation Trivia Quiz

Correct answer: B.

A single letter covers four separate aviation authorities: the mainland uses B with four digits, Taiwan uses five, and Hong Kong and Macau use letter blocks like B-H and B-M — a legacy shared across the Chinese-speaking world. See the full list of aircraft registration prefixes by country.

Correct answer: D.

D stands for Deutschland and has marked German aircraft since the 1920s — with a Cold War split, when East German aircraft flew separately as DM- and later DDR- until reunification returned the whole fleet to D-. See the full list of aircraft registration prefixes by country.

Correct answer: G.

G — for Great Britain — goes back to the 1919 international allocations; the first entry on the register, G-EAAA, was an Airco DH.9, and every mark since has kept the same one-letter-plus-four-letters pattern. See the full list of aircraft registration prefixes by country.

Correct answer: C.

Canadian aircraft first flew as G-CA blocks under Britain's G, then from 1929 as CF-; the modern C-F and C-G marks arrived only in 1974, when Canada claimed the bare letter C for itself. See the full list of aircraft registration prefixes by country.

Correct answer: VT.

The mark dates to British rule in 1929 and is popularly read as "Viceroy's Territory"; proposals to replace it resurface in India's parliament every few years, but the cost of re-registering the whole fleet has kept VT in place. See the full list of aircraft registration prefixes by country.

Correct answer: JA.

Japan flew under a plain J- before the war; the occupation then banned Japanese civil aviation outright, and when flying resumed in 1952 the registry restarted with today's JA marks. See the full list of aircraft registration prefixes by country.

Correct answer: N.

The N mark was allotted to the United States in the 1919 Paris convention's radio-style letter split — which is why American pilots still call a registration an "N-number" — and early marks carried a class letter too, like NC for commercial aircraft. See the full list of aircraft registration prefixes by country.

Correct answer: VH.

Australian aircraft began as G-AU blocks under Britain's G; the 1929 shift to the Commonwealth's V series gave Australia VH, which is why vintage registers list the same aircraft under both marks. See the full list of aircraft registration prefixes by country.