Northern Ireland Aviation Enthusiast's Forum
Civil Aviation => Modern Civil Aircraft => Topic started by: casper on January 11, 2012, 11:18:06 AM
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Just wondering if any one knows why Alitalia have an EI- registration and no tan I-?
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They are leased from a Irish based company,so they have to be regestered in Ireland, I believe Ireland is one of the biggest aircraft leasing countrys in the world......
Have you ever looked at the Irish aircraft register? There are a lot of aircraft on there that would supprise people, 777s, 747s,MD-11s and lots of A319s,A320s etc... I doubt if they would all fit if they had to all come home..... ::)
http://www.iaa.ie/index.jsp?p=321&n=388 (http://www.iaa.ie/index.jsp?p=321&n=388)
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Thanks H, thought it was something like that but wasn't sure. Seems a bit strange that a national airline doesn't own any planes, or few planes. Can you imagine a BA plane with an EI- reg lol
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The Russian airline Transaero Airlines also have aircraft with Irish registrations. It's something I've always thought was odd as 90% of these aircraft will never end up within Ireland.
It's the same for the Isle of Mann, there are many 747's, MD-11's, A330's, A340's and 777's on the Manx register, yet all of them are too large to land at the only airport on the Island (Ronoldsway).
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I thought it was for some sort of corperate tax reason :-[ thanks for explaining it.
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That was another thought running through my mind lol
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Same sort of thing if you look at many Russian airlines aircraft, quite a few don't have RA- reg, but VP-, VB- etc, although I think theirs IS to do with tax purposes?
AERTANK