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This template is used to format United States Air Force (and predecessors) aircraft serial numbers in such a way that they are not mistaken for number ranges. USAF serial numbers since 1921 consist of two numbers (fiscal year and sequence number) joined by a hyphen. This format is often mistaken for a number range by editors, and as such the hyphen is often incorrectly replaced with and en dash per MOS:RANGE, especially by automated or semi-automated editing tools such as AutoWikiBrowser.