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Arkansas License Plates

Arkansas issues plates singly and does not require a front plate.

Stickers moved from easily-read month and year to hard-to-read single-sticker month-year format in March 2016. Blanks issued to cover old month sticker in top left corner.

Standard Passenger Plates

Passenger

BCT 64T

Brian Menius - Jan 20 ’25

Arkansas passenger bases are valid back to 1979:

2006 issue - black on blue fade, white center diamond, top state name and bottom "The Natural State" in darker red, issued from KPG suffix to present, low 135 KPH.

1996 issue - same as the 1979 colors, letters moved to suffix, 001 AAA through KPF suffixes, high 914 KPF.

1989 issue - blue on white, white state name in large red band across top, red on white "Land of Opportunity" at bottom, issued from the POS through ZZZ-999 prefixes.

1979 issue - red on white, blue state name top and bottom "Land of Opportunity", issued from GED through POR prefixes.

OOO series confirmed issued by Dennis Kuo's sighting of 265 OOO. W-series appeared midway through 2014 starting at WAA and reaching approximately WPx by January 2015. The U-series followed at UAA but only reached UHA before moving to WRx-WWZ for the balance of 2015. Remainder of U-suffixes then issued in early-2016 followed by remaining W and then onto X, Y and Z in the normal manner per our data. Current ABC 12D format appeared in April 2021.

Passenger plates are used for several types denoted by a bottom sticker indicating use, such as Public Property, Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran and Fleet Vehicle.

Non-passenger Plates

Specialty Plates

Ducks Unlimited

1ECRZ

Willow Caldwell - Aug 31 ’24

The successful Arkansas Ducks Unlimited specialty plate has appeared in a total of three designs since the 1990s. The first design had the logo screened at far left on a white plate background but is no longer issued. The next two current designs have a fully graphic background with either a flying mallard at left or a standing wood duck at right. Flying mallard plates have red numbers while wood duck plates feature them in green.

Do all three graphics share the same number series or should they be tracked in separate buckets?

Military and Veteran Plates