Norway license plate: Military test

Issued today 1945 to today. Military plates for car, van, truck, and machine, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Military test (1945 to today), sample FMU 430

Format, years and the law

Format
FMU 999, for example FMU 430 (9 any digit)

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

Years issued
1945 to today. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, and machine.
Colours
Characters #CC0000 Background #E8A317
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
About this plate
MILITARY TEST PLATES, red characters on the military ground, and now vanishingly rare: only two units still hold them, the Armed Forces Museum (FMU) and the test-and-development organisation (T-U).

Legal basis and sources

  1. 2026-07-16): military test plates from 1945, red characters on the bronze/orange military ground, three characters (FMU or T-U) plus three digits, today used by only two units. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge

This plate in your app

The series id is no-military-test-1945. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Norway's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/no \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "no-military-test-1945")'