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Spain license plate: NATO FAE

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

Spain license plate, NATO FAE (documented since 1999), sample FAE-816212
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Format, years and the law

Format
FAE-999999, for example FAE-816212 (9 any digit)

FAE stands for Fuerzas Aliadas en España, Allied Forces in Spain. NATO's international military headquarters register their own vehicles, and the final letter names the headquarters.

FAE
Fuerzas Aliadas en España (Allied Forces in Spain)

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, and bus.
About this plate
NATO INTERNATIONAL MILITARY HEADQUARTERS registered in Spain. The Spanish counterpart of Germany's "X" Unterscheidungszeichen (FZV Anlage 2), and worth pairing with it when the encyclopedia covers NATO-status vehicles.

Legal basis and sources

  1. Anexo XVIII II.B: 'FAE: Para los vehículos al servicio de los Cuarteles Generales Militares Internacionales de la OTAN matriculados en España' https://www.boe.es/buscar/pdf/1999/BOE-A-1999-1826-consolidado.pdf

This plate in your app

The series id is es-nato-fae-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-nato-fae-1999")'
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