Alaska license plate: Statehood 50

Retired From 2008, no longer issued. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Alaska Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 13 Alaska license plates.

Alaska (United States) license plate, Statehood 50 (from 2008, no longer issued), sample FFV822

Format, years and the law

Format
LLL999, for example FFV822 (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
From 2008, no longer issued. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Size
12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
About this plate
The series is known to be over, because Alaska visibly issues the gold Last Frontier base today; 2009 is the floor because the commemoration was of a 2009 anniversary and the reported end is 31 December 2009.

Legal basis and sources

  1. AS 28.10.161(b) (reproduction, current through December 2007): the post-1-January-2008 statehood-50 design mandate and the Alaska Statehood Celebration Commission consultation duty https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title28/Chapter10/Section161.htm
  2. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Alaska

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ak-statehood-50. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Alaska's series:

curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-ak \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \
  | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-ak-statehood-50")'