VehiclesDB

Austria license plate: Government fire

Issued today 2002 to today. Government plates for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer, set by the Kraftfahrgesetz 1967 (KFG 1967). One of 18 Austria license plates.

Austria license plate, Government fire (2002 to today), sample FW-690NV
Make this plate with your text Download the blank template (SVG) Every Austria license plate

Format, years and the law

Format
FW-999LL, for example FW-690NV (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

FW is the Feuerwehr, and the serial runs backwards: digits first, district code last, FW-123 GU is a Graz-Umgebung fire engine. It is the sole official serial allowed letters at all, and the only Austrian plate wearing a corps badge instead of arms.

FW
Feuerwehr (fire brigade)

The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.

Years issued
2002 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Government: civil government fleets with distinct series. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 120 mm · every country's size
  • Austria license plate, Government fire 300×200 mm (2002 to today)

    Government fire 300×200 mm

    government · 300 × 200 mm

About this plate
It is the ONE exception § 26 Abs. 6 Z 1 lit. a carves out of the digits-only rule for official plates, and it inverts the whole jurisdiction's geometry: two or three digits first, then the district code, so "FW-123GU" is a Graz-Umgebung fire appliance and the geography is at the END. It is also the only Austrian plate whose emblem is a corps badge rather than arms. Flagged as a vocabulary gap.
Region code notes
THE DISTRICT CODE IS A SUFFIX HERE, NOT A PREFIX. This is the only Austrian series in which the geography sits at the end of the string, and a parse API that assumes prefix-decoding will read it backwards.
How numbers are issued
§ 26 Abs. 6 Z 1 lit. b, verbatim: fire-brigade Vormerkzeichen "müssen mit zwei oder drei Ziffern beginnen und es folgen ein oder zwei Buchstaben". Two or three digits, then the district code.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 26 Abs. 4 lit. i (FW) and Abs. 6 Z 1 lit. b (two or three digits followed by the Anlage 5d code of the Sprengel of registration), expressly carved out of the digits-only rule in lit. a. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=26
  2. § 49 Abs. 4: the Feuerwehr-Korpsabzeichen replaces the Land arms. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=49
  3. § 48 Abs. 4: fire-brigade vehicles carry the sachlicher Bereich in place of the authority code. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=48

This plate in your app

The series id is at-government-fire. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Austria's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/at \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "at-government-fire")'
Check plate formats in your app

More license plates

Nearest to Austria