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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 27, 1928.
10. The Registrar shall transmit every month to the Air Ministry copies of all registrations and of cancellations of registration which have been entered on his register during the preceding month.
11. The Registrar may require that an application for registration shall be supported by a statutory declaration.
12. The Registrar shall charge such fees in connection with the registration of aircraft Governor may prescribe.
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18. The register of British aircraft registered in the Colony shall be open to inspection at such mes and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
B. MARKING.
14. The British nationality mark shall be the capital letter Gin Roman character, and the registration mark shall be a group assigned by the Registrar of four capital letters in Roman character, at least one of which shall be a vowel.
For the purposes of this provision the letter I shall be treated as a vowel.
a prominent 15. The aircraft shall carry affixed to the car (or basket) or to the fuselage, in
Owner and the marks of position, a metal plate inscribed with the names and residence of the nationality and registration.
16. The nationality and registration marks shall also be painted in black on a white ground in the following manner, and (in the case of aircraft other than State or passenger or goods aircraft) the registration mark shall be underlined with a black line:-
(a) Flying Machines.---The marks shall be painted once on the lower surfaces of the lower main planes, and once on the upper surface of the top main planes, the top of the letters to be towards the leading edge. They shall also be painted along each side of the fuselage In cases where the machine is not between the main planes and the tail planes.
provided with a fuselage the marks shall be painted on the nacelle instead.
(b) Airships and Balloons.—In the case of airships the marks shall be painted near the maximum cross section on both sides and on the upper surface, equidistant from the letters on the side. In the case of balloons the marks shall be painted twice near the maximum horizontal circumference as far as possible from one another. In the case both of airships and balloons the side marks shall be visible both from the sides and ground.
17. The nationality mark in the case of flying machines and airships shall also be painted on the port and starboard sides of the lower surface of the lowest tail planes or elevators and also on the upper surface of the top tail planes or elevators, whichever is the larger. It shall also be painted on both sides of the rudder, or on the outer sides of the outer rudders if more than one rudder is fitted.
In the case of balloons the nationality mark shall be painted on the basket.
18. In the case of flying machines the height of the marks on the main planes and tail planes respectively shall be equal to four-fifths of the chord, and, in the case of the rudder, shall be as large as possible. The height of the marks on the fuselage or nacelle shall be equal to four-fifths of the greatest depth of the narrowest part of that portion of the fuselage or nacelle on which the marks are painted.
In the case of airships the nationality marks painted on the tail plane shall be equal in height to four-fifths of the chord of the tail plane, and. in the case of the rudder, shall be as large as possible. of the The height of the other marks shall be equal to at least one-twelfth of the circumference maximum transverse cross-section of the airship.
In the case of balloons the height of the nationality mark shall be equal to four-fifths of the height of the basket, and the height of the other marks shall be equal to at least one-twelfth of the circumference of the balloon.
In the case of all aircraft the letters of the nationality and registration marks need not exceed eight feet in height.
19. The width of the letters shall be two-thirds of their height, and the thickness shall be one- sixth of their height. The letters shall be painted in plain block type and shall be uniform in shape and size. A space equal to half the width of the letters shall be left between the letters.
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