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Norway license plate: Off-road

Issued today Documented since 1990. Standard plates for tractor, machine, snowmobile, atv, and truck, issued by Statens vegvesen. One of 17 Norway license plates.

Norway license plate, Off-road (documented since 1990), sample AU 43663
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Format, years and the law

Format
LL 99999, for example AU 43663 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1990; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for tractor, machine, snowmobile, atv, and truck.
Colours
Characters #F2E14C Background #000000
Size
520 × 110 mm · every country's size
  • Norway license plate, Off-road 303×85 mm (documented since 1990)

    Off-road 303×85 mm

    standard · 303 × 85 mm

About this plate
THE ANLEGGSSKILT, black with light-yellow characters, for vehicles approved but never driven on public roads. THE SVALBARD POINT is the one worth knowing: Svalbard's roads are private, so every vehicle in the archipelago carries this plate, on the ZN and FH combinations. That makes the black plate the only Norwegian plate whose colour plus combination together do encode a place.
How numbers are issued
same letter allocation and same number ranges as the ordinary white plate, only the colour differs

Legal basis and sources

  1. § 2-11 tredje ledd a: vehicles used only off public roads carry light-yellow characters on a black ground. https://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/1990-01-25-92/KAPITTEL_2
  2. 2026-07-16): 'anleggsskilt', tractors, snowmobiles, airport and harbour vehicles; the same letter codes and numbering as the white plate; SVALBARD uses this type because its roads are privately owned. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjennemerke_for_motorkj%C3%B8ret%C3%B8y_i_Norge

This plate in your app

The series id is no-offroad-1990. 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-offroad-1990")'
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