I missed payment on one of my planes, got it repossessed, got it back, but the problem is, there's now a gap in my fleet's tail numbers. For example, the plane repossessed was N003CAE, then was re-obtained but given the tail number N004CAE, meaning that now N003CAE belongs to no aircraft, and it's kinda bugging me a bit. Is there any way to remedy this?
In Airlinesim, some countries "re-use" the tail numbers, and some do not. USA is one of the countries that does not reuse tail numbers in AS.
I asked Martin once about it and it was some technical reason. I do not remember it now nor understood the explanation at that time, but let's just leave it at that - for some countries, the reason tail numbers are not reused, is a technical one. I have seen tail numbers being re-used in countries that use letters designation instead of numbers (e.g. XX-ABC instead of N000XX).