Originally Posted by
Marc Zeitlin
There are about 215K US registered aircraft, and with the NxxxAA numbering scheme, there are about 1.4M available "N" numbers. We're not going to run out of available #'s in the foreseeable future. While folks can certainly buy up some desirable #'s, it's kind of like domain names - you may or may not get the one you want for the lowest price, but there's always SOME # you can get for the lowest price.
I kind of understand the objection in the OP, but it doesn't seem like a federal case to me, and my guess is that the solution would be worse than the disease, especially to free marketeers.