Originally Posted by
Eric Witherspoon
To the other side, I'd be willing to pay for my reservation on one of these in-limbo numbers if the FAA would rather take my money than just have numbers sitting unused in a database... My suspicion is there's a lot of junked airplanes that are really in a status of no-longer-exists, pile of junk, basket case, parted out, scrapped, abandoned - or otherwise will never return to flight status. When the registration on these has expired, the FAA may as well immediately release the number for re-use...