In the previous post I covered some of the basics of finding a registration if what you have is partial or incomplete information. The information that wasn’t mentioned was just the date of the photograph, in this case it was the 12th of October 2011 and the location was San Carlos Airport CA.
To quickly update, a search of an age relevant database of my own, left me with almost 150 possible registrations ending with CP and on a Cirrus SR22 – which is just a few too many for ease of searching. Had this been a less common type or had more of the registration been visible, then identification would have been straight forward as I would probably had only three or four to search for manually – however 150 is a bit of a stretch.
What to do now.
As I described in the previous post, there are a couple of options for looking for this registration. The first is to contact the local spotters group if there is one, but this happened 11 years ago now so it may be that there are other options. Without trying too hard I was able to find a spotters group in the area, they are online here so I’ll start by asking them if they have a list for the approximate dates – or a residents list for the airfield.
Other Options
Other options here are some of the commercial database packages have residents lists, contacting other spotters that use packages like aerodata and the like may prove fruitful. But at the moment I’ll be waiting on feedback from the Bay Area Spotters, before I start contacting friends.