I've been curious about this for a while. How does the FAA decide whether or not an airport gets an identifier with a K at the beginning? I can't think of a reason. I thought maybe towered airports only but there's a lot of nontowered airports with a "K" identifier. Then I thought maybe airports with a paved runway, but recently I flew to I69 in Ohio, which has a paved runway. Does runway lenght have something to do with it?
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Does the "I" indicate anything? Along with Jordan's I69, two airports near DAY are I17 & I think I19. Parr Airport in Zanesville, OH is 42I, and all three of these have paved runways.
A few airports on US soil in the Caribbean have "T" at the start of their code; SJU is TJSJ, STT is TIST, & STX is TISX.
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There are many airports that aren't K###. Princeton for example is 39N. I don't know why though, or what convention regulates this."The Director also sets the record straight on what would happen if oxygen masks were to drop from the ceiling: The passengers freak out with abandon, instead of continuing to chat amiably, as though lunch were being served, like they do on those in-flight safety videos."
-- The LA Times, in a review of 'Flightplan'
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Originally posted by JordanDI know that K is designated for the continental US. Usually on charts the small grass strips have identifiers like 23KY or something like that, but I don't see why something in Ohio would be I69.
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Originally posted by Alaska Air RulesNot all airports have the letter "K" at the beginning. Up here in Alaska, and Hawaii our airports start with "P", example: Anchorage=PANC.
PANC Anchorage
PAEI Fairbanks
PAJN Juneau
"PA" I assume means "Pacific Alaska"
PHNL Honolulu
PHTO Hilo
PHOG Maui
PH, Pacific Hawaii
EHAM Amsterdam
EH, Europe Holland
EGLL London Heathrow
EG, Europe Great Britain
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"K" is the letter used to designate Continental United States for four letter ICAO airport codes.
Only airports that get 4 letter codes in the US are the airports currently equipped with an ILS, or planning one.
The airport I learned to fly at recently got a 4 letter code from the 3 character code it had after the runway was extended and an ILS planned.Bite me Airways.....
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