page_title: Portuguese military aircraft serials
section_title: Naval Aviation
hierarchical_section_title: Portuguese military aircraft serials / History / Naval Aviation
caption_attribution_description: Westland Lynx Mk.95 of Portuguese Navy at Porto Red Bull Air Race 2008.
context_page_description: In Portugal to identify individual aircraft, all military aircraft are allocated and display a serial number. A common serial number system is used for aircraft operated by the three military branches, the Portuguese Air Force, Portuguese Naval Aviation and Portuguese Army. Individual agencies have each their own system.
  Some aircraft that were acquired and offered to Portugal, even before the organization of the military aviation as an entity, never received serials, being only identified by their own names.
context_section_description: The first system used by the Portuguese Naval Aviation was a general sequential system. This system began being implemented in 1917 with the F.B.A hydroplanes, which consisted in the assignment of the natural numbering sequence (1,2,3, ...) to each aircraft type.
caption: A Portuguese Navy Lynx Mk-95 helicopter, 19204, in accordance with the integrated system for the serial number.
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