Aircraft registration font

[Cheryl Tissington]

Hi Alan

I supply quite a lot of caa markings for light aircraft. The best thing is to scan and trace the information that you can down load from the caa web site & produce your own set of type face. Thats what I did.

Although the text is similar to a lot of others, the size & shape is quite critical. I’ve never come across this exact font….but I could be wrong !

Be careful too with the colours that you produce the lettering in. Pilots will ask you for lots of wacky colours, but there are set colours which the CAA insist on. There are also set colours that you can use to mix & match if you are using a backing colour.

Sorry I can’t give you the name of a font, but I hope this info helps.

Cheryl

[Alan Drury]

I spoke to the CAA today and they had fairly flexible attitude in as much as the font needed to be a sans serif font easily readable and provided the sizing was correct that would be ok. I have seen ordinary Helvetica bold on aircraft so may well go with that. The stuff on the website is for guidance and comes from the pre-computer cut lettering days, shame the CAA don’t either mention an accepatable font by name or commission one for download, would save any ambiguity.
Alan

[Peter Normington]

Found this if its any good
http://www.vershen.com/psgcatal.html#farmarks
Peter

[Jon Fields]

what type of vinyl are you using for aircraft lettering/graphics..
polymeric or cast?

cheers

Jon
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[Alan Drury]

Using cast vinyl, its for a light/single engined plane. I suspect a good quality polymeric may be ok for this though.
Alan