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questions about aircraft tail ID letters
Wolf-Leader
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Posted: Friday, March 17, 2017 - 05:09 AM UTC
Hello fellow vets.
I am trying to catagorise some of my friends military photos that he gave me to work on.They are of a bunch of f-4 phantom II's and what I am trying to do is to put them in order by state based on the tail markings.So my question to all of you is this;
1.Can you please tell me what the states each f-4 is from by the tail letter(s)?Here are the list of some of the tail markings to give you some idea what I'm up against.If you know what they are feel free to tell me.

1.HR
2.SH
3.NJ
4.RS
5.TX
6.SJ
7.OY
8.MY
9.TH
10.GA
11.ZF
12.WW
13.HO
14.ZR
15.AF
16.FO
17.FG
18.SP
19.PN
20.SL
21.HD
22.TD
23.JO
24.WR
25.MC
26.HL
27.BT
28.AL
29.FP
30.LN
31.EF
32.SA
33.OT
34.LA
35.CR
36.AR
37.VT
38.DC
39.AD
40.KY
41.DO
42.XC
43.FM
So if any of you guys can translate what they mean,it would be a hugh help to me. Thank you and good luck.
HeavyArty
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Posted: Sunday, April 09, 2017 - 06:06 PM UTC
Send me a PM with your email address. I have a document that list most (possibly all?) the different USAF tail codes and their corresponding locations.
highway70
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Posted: Monday, April 10, 2017 - 12:14 AM UTC
A list here but doesn't have a lot of the ones on your list.

http://www.military.cz/usa/air/air_accessories/usaf_tail_cod/usaf_tail_cod.htm

Another list not identical

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/af/tail_markings.pdf

A search engine for tail codes

http://www.globemaster.de/tailcodes.html