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Old June 6th 07, 05:25 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Andrew Sarangan
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Default KEAT name history?

On Jun 6, 12:01 pm, "RST Engineering" wrote:
Care to explain the logic of KGOO???

Jim

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On Jun 5, 6:55 pm, "Ken Finney" wrote:
Pangborn airport in Wenatchee, Washington is named after Clyde Pangborn,
but
bears the identifier (EAT). Anyone know why that identifier, or was it
just
random?


The only thing I notice is wEnATchee - sometimes they do things like
that, i.e. EWK for nEWarK, etc. also 'W' is not allowed as a first
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I always wondered how they came up with Canadian airport identifiers.
None of them seem to have any connection with the airport names.