I was at my local airport and noticed a few jets that caught my eye. I have the callsign and reg. of one (N576QS/EJA576) but only the callsign of the other two: OPT913 and EJA351.
EJA is NetJets. IIRC all of their tail numbers end in QS and their call sign is EJA + the three digits of their tail number. So EJA351 would be N351QS.
From “what I remember” OPT does the same thing. Accuracy of that information isn’t guaranteed. Been a while since I’ve serviced an OPT a/c.
I do know for sure NASA does the same thing at least for most of their flights… N926NA would fly as NASA926.
The Options fleet uses CW (Cleveland Wings) and LX (Luxury) as the last two characters, so you can usually just add one of those suffixs to the flight # to come up with the tail #.
The callsign/n-number correlation works almost all the time, but it’s not foolproof. I could file for any Avantair number that I felt like (VNR007!), but it’s just easier to file the number of the airplane I’m in, that way I know there’s no one else using that same number. Some companies have a number for each pilot, so the pilot files using their own number regardless of what aircraft they’re flying.