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Navy officer service numbers were simple in design since the Navy officer corps in 1920 was relatively small and there was little need for a complex service number system. The first Navy service numbers, which ranged from 1 to 500, were designated for retroactive presentation to retired naval officers who had served in the First World War and ...
R-1: Arthur Crean – First service number of the United States armed forces; O-1: John J. Pershing – First officer service number of the United States Army; 100 00 01: Clayton Aab — First enlisted service number of the United States Navy; 532 – Samuel R. Colhoun — Earliest recorded officer service number of the United States Navy
The serial would not be allowed to be less than four digits (for example B-45 serial number 47-007 was marked 7007), but there was no upper limit (for example YP-59A 42-108783 was marked as 2108783). When the original fiscal year of a serial became ten years earlier than the current fiscal year, the tail number was often prefixed with a zero ...
12-345-678: United States Army enlisted service numbers and United States Air Force enlisted service numbers; 123-45-67: United States Navy enlisted service numbers; 1234-567: United States Coast Guard enlisted service numbers; 123456: United States Marine Corps enlisted service numbers; 12345: Service number format for most U.S. military officers
The registry, and the SP/ID number series, was continued at least into the early 1920s, with new numbers being assigned to ships completed or examined after the end of World War I. The latter category included some ships that served in the Navy, without numbers, during 1917–1919.
By default, 5-digit numeric serials known as Bureau Numbers (BuNo) are as issued by the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics (BuAer), presented here without the imaginary "BuNo" prefix. 4-digit serials in the form 9xxx, and 5-digit serials in the form 1xxxx are as issued to Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft.