On vacation I was on a plane, my dad didn’t know the answer either.
Asker: Marie, 8 years old
Answer
All aircraft have a “number plate”, a registration number, which is painted on the underside of the wings so that you can recognize the aircraft from the ground. Belgian aircraft have a registration number that starts with OO, such as “OO-HFE”.
Some airline companies also give their aircraft a “real” name, but this is not mandatory. KLM names its planes after princes or princesses, Lufthansa names them after German cities.
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Engineer Bart Dierickx
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