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Alaska license plate: Year of manufacture

Issued today Documented since 2026. Historic plates for car, truck, and motorcycle, issued by Alaska Department of Administration, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV). One of 13 Alaska license plates.

Alaska (United States) license plate, Year of manufacture (documented since 2026), sample XDE287
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Format, years and the law

Format
LLL999, for example XDE287 (L is any letter, 9 any digit)

The format above is broad: a registration that fits it has the right shape, which does not show that this series issued it.

Years issued
Documented since 2026; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
Vehicle class
Historic: vintage/oldtimer regimes (German H, ES historico). Issued for car, truck, and motorcycle.
Who can have one
vehicle manufactured 30 or more years before the year of application, a ROLLING threshold, stated in statute this time rather than delegated.

Legal basis and sources

  1. AS 28.10.181(b)(2): owner-supplied plates of this state corresponding to the year of manufacture, for vehicles 30 or more years old https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/http://www.touchngo.com/lglcntr/akstats/Statutes/Title28/Chapter10/Section181.htm

This plate in your app

The series id is us-ak-year-of-manufacture. 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-year-of-manufacture")'
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