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Old February 17th 08, 02:54 PM posted to rec.travel.air,rec.aviation.piloting
JA_MORAN[_2_]
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Default icao airport weather for anywhere

a military base would be KLUF (LUF) that's Luke Air Force Base in
Glendale Arizona..

another is KEDW (EDW) Edwards Air Force BAse near Palmdale, California

JOHN

Tombstone, Arizona has no regular commercial traffic


Tom P wrote:
Robert M. Gary schrieb:

On Feb 11, 1:31 am, JA_MORAN wrote:

if you know the ICAO airport code (not the IATA one) then you can get
the weather for the airport or city

http://www.airport-technology.com/icao-codes/A.html



What if there is only an IATA code and not an ICOA code assigned?

-Robert



Do you have an example? AFAIK virtually every airport has an ICAO code,
but a large number, if not the majority, do not have IATA codes. These
include most military airfields and a huge number of airfields that have
no regular commercial traffic.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports