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Identifiers with K or identifiers without the K. Or identifiers that begin with the state abbreviation?
Which came first?
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Are you talking about ariport IDs?
If so it is without the K.
The first airports were identified with a two letter city code. As in Los Angles = LA Chicago = CG, etc.
When the codes became three letter codes they added an X to the existing two letter codes hence LAX and CGX (Meigs).
Latter the ICAO become the international standards body that took on the responsibility for airport codes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO
If so it is without the K.
The first airports were identified with a two letter city code. As in Los Angles = LA Chicago = CG, etc.
When the codes became three letter codes they added an X to the existing two letter codes hence LAX and CGX (Meigs).
Latter the ICAO become the international standards body that took on the responsibility for airport codes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO
K is the ICAO prefix for the continental US. Any three LETTER only airport identifier there can be made into an ICAO prefix by adding K. Numbers aren't allowed. METAR reporting requires an ICAO identifier which is why a lot of small airports with AWOS's got reidentified a few years back.
The old small airport designator was to use a single letter and two digits (in some combination) where the identifier was some FAA region (I10, W66, 2W5, ...). The laster FAA philosophy was to switch to the two letter postal abbreviation (NC29, ...)
The old small airport designator was to use a single letter and two digits (in some combination) where the identifier was some FAA region (I10, W66, 2W5, ...). The laster FAA philosophy was to switch to the two letter postal abbreviation (NC29, ...)
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I just ran across this article with just about everything you could want to know about airport identifiers.
"Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes"
by Dave English
http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html
"Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes"
by Dave English
http://www.skygod.com/asstd/abc.html
Joe B
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Somebody's been tinkering with things. I get METARS on airports with numbers in the identifier from DUATS now.
Regards,
Joe
kevin47881
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My opinion is the chicken came first. Feel free to argue amongst yourselves. 
EdFred
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My opinion is the chicken came first. Feel free to argue amongst yourselves.
I disagree, the rooster probably did. ba-dum-pum
kevin47881
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The sad thing is it took me a moment to realize where you were going with that comment.
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Was the chicken on a conveyor belt?
::ducks large trout being swung at his head::
::ducks large trout being swung at his head::
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He was and was never able to achieve airspeed velocity to be able to cross the road.
BTW does anyone know the airspeed velocity of a fully laden chicken?
gkainz
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The chicken came first, according to the technical documentation...
Genesis 1:21 "So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind."
Genesis 1:21 "So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind."
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I don't know, have you ever read Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
t0r0nad0
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What do you mean, an African or European chicken?BTW does anyone know the airspeed velocity of a fully laden chicken?
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Yes, and I read the fourth book in the trilogy 42 times!I don't know, have you ever read Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
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Yes, and I read the fourth book in the trilogy 42 times!
Good job! I was wondering if anyone would get that obscure reference!!
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I don't know, have you ever read Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
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