ATC Airline Names

[mshel333]

Does anyone know what airline is called "Happy" by ATC? Thanks.

[digger]

Here's a website you can use to find that information. http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/callsign.asp

It says nobody uses "Happy".

Here's a list of military callsigns. (I looked at three different sites that list military callsigns, and this is the first that included "Happy". They are not all complete or 100% accurate--I checked for a couple callsigns I know are used around here, and they weren't listed.)

For what it's worth: http://www.panix.com/~clay/scanning/Frequencies/Military/mil-callsigns.txt

It lists "Happy" as:
HAPPY             KC-135 126th ARW, IL ANG at O'Hare Int'l

Does that help?

[MathFox]

Are you sure it wasn't Cappy? - Capital Cargo International Airlines

Another list of call signs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_call_signs

[Greg01]

Military aircraft are generally tagged with pronouceable five letter codes (i.e. Tiger, etc.).

Greg

[davolijj]

Military tactical call signs are actually 3-6 letter codes followed by numbers pronounced in single-digit form:

(h) Military tactical and training:

(1) U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard, Military District of Washington priority aircraft, and USAF civil disturbance aircraft. Pronounceable words of 3 to 6 letters followed by a 1 to 5 digit number.

EXAMPLE-
"Paul Two Zero."
"Pat One Five Seven."
"Gaydog Four."