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Spain license plate: Military

Issued today Documented since 1999. Military plates for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer, issued by Dirección General de Tráfico (DGT). One of 19 Spain license plates.

Spain license plate, Military (documented since 1999), sample ET-316585
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Format, years and the law

Format
ET-999999, for example ET-316585 (9 any digit)

The letters name the branch: ET is Ejército de Tierra (army), FN Fuerza Naval (navy), EA Ejército del Aire (air force). One numbering rule covers all three.

ET
Ejército de Tierra (army)
FN
Fuerza Naval (navy)
EA
Ejército del Aire (air force)

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

Years issued
Documented since 1999; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Military: armed-forces registration systems. Issued for car, van, truck, bus, motorcycle, and trailer.
About this plate
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE fleets, Army (ET), Navy (FN), Air Force (EA). One series because Anexo XVIII II.B treats the three contraseñas in a single provision with a single numbering rule; the branch is decodable from the contraseña. Colours and dimensions are NOT in Anexo XVIII for state plates and are not invented here.
About the format
digit width is representative only, Anexo XVIII II.B lists the contraseñas but states no numbering grammar

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII II.B: 'ET, FN y EA: Para vehículos pertenecientes al Ministerio de Defensa, correspondientes, respectivamente al Ejército de Tierra, Armada y Ejército del Aire' and the '-VE' rule for vehículos especiales https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-military-1999. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Spain's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/es \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "es-military-1999")'
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