airport identifiers? "K" prefix?

[GravityHater]

you have to learn which is required (K or not) for each gps/fms/airport info site/weather site/handheld device.........until they standardize the darned things!!!

 

[Vik]

Hrm, some of what you guys doesn't make sense especially with the example I gave. Corona Airport is a TINY airport .. yet its KAJO (and a few years ago it had a non-K ID). It is non-towered.

Thanks for the replies!

 

[gsrcrsx68]

Vik,
Any chance KAJO used to be private or municiple and is now owned by the Feds or something. I thought 3 letters meant municipal, larger airports got 4 letter and then international got 3 letter also. I remember reading it, but I can't remember where.

 

[JAFI]

Hrm, some of what you guys doesn't make sense especially with the example I gave. Corona Airport is a TINY airport .. yet its KAJO (and a few years ago it had a non-K ID). It is non-towered.

Thanks for the replies!

Vic, a control tower has nothing to do with the three or four letter code system. I know of several TINY non towered airports that have and use a four letter code.


Some links for your reading pleasure:

http://www.answers.com/topic/iata-airport-code

IATA 3 letter codes
http://www.airport-technology.com/codes/

ICAO 4 letter codes
http://www.airport-technology.com/icao-codes/


Airport code look up site:

http://www.postmodern.com/~mcb/misc/code.html