All about Kansas license plates

1988 introduced the three-letter/three-number style licence plate (mainly because Johnson County was running out of numbers)

A 1989 tag in its original configuration.  Note that the "89" is screened onto the plate in the spot reserved for the registration decal is located.  New short-term registrations in 1988 recieved the new plate with a white-on-black 88 decal.  When renawal time came, a "89" sticker (also white-on-black) was issued)	This Truck Plate shows the updated configuration used after the first year, with the enlarged county code and the month being place under the expiration.
All heavy trucks and trailers recieved the new tags first, with December 1988 expirations.  They were also the first to recieve the updated configuration, with the "89" sticker.  This was the last year for the "Non Highway" tags -- afterward, they would be taxed on the real property side and therefore no longer required a licence tag.	About midway through the run of the 1989 place, the fonting of the "Kansas" was altered to make it a bit more readable.  I consider this plate to be a "psudo-sample" plate because it lacks any month or year decals, and was made late in the run of the 89 plates, I assume that this plate had not been issued when the 1989 series was replaced by the 1995 series.
(Courtesy Plateshack.com) The Sample plate labeled for Shawnee County and bearing a 1990 decal.	A Kansas tag completly "filled in":  Registration on these tags went from 1989 to 1994.

Sequence:  Word has that the first plate in the sequence, AAA 000, was assigned to Allen County, which is the first county alphabetically. The sequence goes from AAA to GRZ, with plates after about DXA utilizing the modified lettering.

Renewal Decals:  As with the 1976 and 1980 issues, the 89 issue uses colored decals with the exception of the white on black 88 and 89 issues, all decals used colored numbers on a white background.