Delaware license plate: Standard flat

Retired Documented 1969 to 2008. Standard plates for car, van, truck, and bus, issued by Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles (DelDOT DMV). One of 10 Delaware license plates.

Delaware (United States) license plate, Standard flat (documented 1969 to 2008), sample 224054, Delaware flat plate (schematic) · 1969 to 2008
Delaware flat plate (schematic) · 1969 to 2008

Every design of this plate 2

The same registration series, issued on 2 looks. Same format, same size; pick one to see it above.

  • Delaware Standard flat license plate, Delaware flat plate (schematic) · 1969 to 2008

    Delaware flat plate (schematic) default

    1969 to 2008

  • Delaware Standard flat license plate, Navy and gold flat base (specimen) · 1969 to 2008

    Navy and gold flat base (specimen) specimen photo

    1969 to 2008

    The 2006 passenger-car sample of the flat 1969 design: gold characters, THE FIRST STATE and DELAWARE on navy, the PLACE STICKER HERE box.

    Based on 1969 Delaware license plate 2006 PC sample by WashingtonWillie at English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Format, years and the law

Format
999999, for example 224054 (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 1969 to 2008; the format is likely older than the first year documented. No longer issued.
Vehicle class
Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, truck, and bus.
Colours
Characters #C8A951
About this plate
DELAWARE, FLAT (1969-2008). Format, colours, legends and serial space are all identical across it. Both remain valid: Delaware recalls nothing.

Legal basis and sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Delaware

Before and after

This plate in your app

The series id is us-de-standard-flat. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Delaware's series:

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