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by numpad0 923 days ago
Neat little detail of the world Wikipedia once told me: the 00 suffix of classic Boeing planes, dropped in 2016, was substituted with Boeing assigned customer code on registration documents. e.g. a PAN AM 773-300 would have been 777-321, an Air Berlin Jetfoil would have been 929-16J, and so on.

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