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Austria license plate: Military

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

Austria license plate, Military (2002 to today), sample BH-132192
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Format, years and the law

Format
BH-999999, for example BH-132192 (9 any digit)

BH is the Bundesheer; everything else is an ordinary white EU plate with a digits-only serial. The same letter pair is banned from vanity plates, where the regulation glosses it "Blood and Honour", context is everything, and here it is simply the army.

BH
Bundesheer (Austrian armed forces)

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
Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
Colours
Characters #000000 Background #FFFFFF
Size
520 × 120 mm · every country's size
About this plate
HEERESFAHRZEUGE. Unlike the German Bundeswehr's Y plates, Austrian army plates are ordinary white EU plates with an ordinary typeface and the ordinary reflectivity requirement, the prefix is the only difference. THE DETAIL WORTH THE FILE: "BH" is simultaneously the lawful military prefix under § 26 Abs. 4 lit. g and an expressly forbidden Wunschkennzeichen combination under § 26 Abs. 8 Z 2, where the regulation glosses it "(Blood and Honour)". The same two letters are also the standard abbreviation for Bezirkshauptmannschaft throughout Anlage 5d, where they are not a code at all.

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 26 Abs. 4 lit. g: 'für Heeresfahrzeuge BH'; Abs. 6 Z 1 lit. a (digits only); Abs. 8 Z 2, which lists 'BH' among the combinations forbidden to Wunschkennzeichen. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011385&Paragraf=26
  2. § 48 Abs. 1 Z 2: Bundesheer vehicles may also hold Deckkennzeichen. https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/NormDokument.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011384&Paragraf=48

This plate in your app

The series id is at-military. 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-military")'
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