Historical Spanish registrations

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Hey guys,

Not sure where the right place was for this but here we go. I have noticed after surfing on Airfleets.net that some Spanish aircraft up until the early 1990s were registred with EC-123 instead of the contemporary EC-abc code. Does anybody have any info regarding the reason that some aircraft were registred like this? My only guess would have been the Franco regime although that ended in 1978 and up until 1992 aircraft were sill bearing that reg.

Regards

AJ

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19 years 6 months

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The EC-numbers registration were temporary marks prior to being placed on the EC register; addtionally, they'll be some that were flown as a "normal" EC- registration which went to EC-numbers before becoming a normal EC- registration again which I think is something to do with change of ownership in the aircraft.

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In the 90s all planes had regular abc registrations. As David says, only temporary marks.