North Carolina license plate: Standard first in flight
Issued today Documented since 2009. Standard plates for car, van, and truck, issued by North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NCDMV). One of 10 North Carolina license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LLL-9999, for exampleHAI-4204(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
- Documented since 2009; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for car, van, and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#1F4E9C - Size
- 12 × 6 in (305 × 152 mm) · every country's size
- About this plate
- NORTH CAROLINA FIRST IN FLIGHT, the default of the three statutory designs and the oldest continuously issued. It is also one of the five oldest US plate DESIGNS still in use by lineage (the First in Flight concept dates to 1982, when it won ALPCA's Plate of the Year, the only time North Carolina has been so honoured).
- How numbers are issued
- Reported blocks for THIS design: AAA-1001 onwards from December 2010, reaching approximately LKE-7520 by mid-2025; the immediately preceding stretch of the same design ran ZNE-1001 to ZZZ-9999 from October 2009. First letters are therefore in the A-L range and are expected to run to N before exhaustion.
Legal basis and sources
- § 20-63(b) [via FindLaw; ncleg.gov 403]: the three-design election and the verbatim First in Flight description (words at top, Wright Brothers biplane over Kitty Hawk Beach); (a) one plate; (c) 100-foot daylight... https://codes.findlaw.com/nc/chapter-20-motor-vehicles/nc-gen-st-sect-20-63.html
- NCDMV names 'First in Flight' as one of three standard designs available for private passenger and private hauler vehicles and states what it commemorates (the Wright Brothers' first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, 1903) https://www.ncdot.gov/dmv/title-registration/license-plates/Pages/default.aspx
- en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_North_Carolina
Before and after
This plate in your app
The series id is us-nc-standard-first-in-flight. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of North Carolina's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/us-nc \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "us-nc-standard-first-in-flight")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nc/us-nc-standard-first-in-flight.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/us-nc/us-nc-standard-first-in-flight/template.svg
