TermCallsign
Business termCallsign
Description

A call sign is used to uniquely identify an aircraft using the airspace around a particular airport.  Call signs in aviation are derived from several different policies, depending upon the type of flight operation. In most countries, unscheduled general aviation flights identify themselves using the call sign corresponding to the aircraft's registration number.  Commercial operators, including scheduled airline, air cargo and air taxi operators, will usually use an ICAO or FAA-registered call sign for their company. These will typically consist of the ICAO code of the operating airline followed by a flight identification.  The flight identification is very often the same as the flight number, but could be different due to call sign confusion, if two or more flights close to each other have similar flight numbers (i.e. KLM649 and KLM645 or BAW466 and BAW646).

Legal values

 

Comments 
StatusApproved 2013-04-04
XML typestring (20)
Ref from
Labels

2 Comments

  1. Unknown User (toger)

    Should we also mention socalled Alphanumeric callsigns?

     

    1. Unknown User (caony)

      Hva er forskjellen på callsign som spesifisert over, og som er alfanumerisk, og et "Alphanumeric" call sign?