I chuckled the first time I saw this aircraft

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 04/09/2019 at 18:47 • Filed to: None

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The poors don’t have private jets, but El Jefe does...

CaptDale - is secretly British > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/09/2019 at 18:55

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That plane looks like it missed leg day

For Sweden > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/09/2019 at 19:03

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XA- JFE

He’s Russian?

Spanfeller is a twat > For Sweden 04/09/2019 at 19:09

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XA is DGAC speak  for Commercial aircraft.

Spanfeller is a twat > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/09/2019 at 19:11

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Me thinks a board of stockholders registered a private jet as a commercial one for tax reasons....

For Sweden > Spanfeller is a twat 04/09/2019 at 19:14

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Is it?

Spanfeller is a twat > For Sweden 04/09/2019 at 19:17

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if I recall correctly, XA is commercial, XB is private, and XC is government 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > CaptDale - is secretly British 04/09/2019 at 19:21

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Well, when this ‘ plane was designed in the ‘70s, with input from Bill Lear of Learjet fame, it was expected to eventually be stretched into an airliner:

The fuselage  diameter certainly makes for a more comfortable bizjet, less so as a commercial aircraft.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Spanfeller is a twat 04/09/2019 at 19:23

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I thought that all civil aircraft in Mexico had the XA- prefix. Is there another prefix for private aircraft?

Spanfeller is a twat > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/09/2019 at 19:31

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Yes, XB is for private aircraft and XC is for government aircraft. Plus I believe the military has its own system.

If the Mexican President is aboard an aircraft inside Mexican airspace , that a ircraft must identify as TP- 01. The B787 and the B757 though are registered formally for foreign trips as XC-MEX and XC-UJM.

The thing is, there is such thing as a tax on private jets, I’m not sure how much the Challenger 600 is meant to pay, but if you tell the IRS that it has 21 seats, you can get the XA prefix, and also a tax exemption.

Many private jets are used commercially though, so it’s not entirely abnormal to see a lot of them with the XA prefix, But this one has such a characteristic livery that it probably belongs to the newspaper El Universal as some sort of toy for the stockholders. 

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Spanfeller is a twat 04/09/2019 at 19:46

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Thanks for this information. My experience with Mexican-registered aircraft had been limited to airlines; my customers included AVIACSA, Mexicana, Aerom exico and Volaris. XA-JFE was one of the few non-airline, Mexican-registered aircraft I had encountered, hence my misunderstanding. I just assumed that all civil aircraft had the same prefix, like in the US where every registration  starts with ‘N’.

Spanfeller is a twat > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/09/2019 at 19:50

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I still  don’t know why or how we got three alphabetic ICAO codes while some countries need to use numbers and letters.