Federal Aviation Administration font



In the book 'Aircraft maintenance and repair' by Frank Delp, Ralph Bent and James McKinley, from 1987, I came across a (supposedly) standard Federal Aviation Administration font. It looks a lot like US Air Force standard font from Tech Order 1-1-4, including a 6x4 grid, but there are many differences. I know very few examples of civil aircraft using this font, but suddenly understood why some BD-5s had a font that looked like the USAF font, but wasn't. However, I still haven't found its source. At one point I hoped it was included in FAR Part 45 'Identification and registration marking' but it is not.




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I made a scan of page 140 of 'Aircraft maintenance and repair'. For comparison, I extracted the page with the USAF's Tech Order 1-1-4 font.





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