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Trinc: The Yridians aren't members in the Federation, so that 3069 holds no water.
The Galaxies we see in the war scenes have no registries visible either, but that doesn't mean that Galaxies don't get registries. It only makes sense that if runabouts get registries then raiders do too.
Technically, all good-sized shuttlecraft are perfectly capable of Interstellar travel, despite what the specs in the TNG tech man seem to imply. Shuttles consistently go from system to system, even across sectors (as per "Interface"). Probably the only reasoning behind getting a registry is being a public vessels (a related point, in the moneyless Federation, what by way of private vessels are there?) and being independent of another spacecraft or starbase. (Runabouts do sorta push that envelope, but I do see them being used as general interstellar transports around the federation.
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I think runabouts and raiders exist in a quasi-ship level. They have factory assigned registries, like a starship, but the names are up to whomever gets them on the other end. Sisko apparently names his runabouts...other commanding officers probably name theirs. As for the raiders, they would be named by their pilot(s).
This might explain why Data's scoutship didn't have a name painted on it. None was assigned, perhaps because Admiral Dougherty wanted to file as little paperwork as possible.
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Shipmaster: IIRC, the E-D was delivering a runabout to DS9 in "Timescape", weren't they?
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