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Old February 19th 08, 05:10 PM posted to rec.travel.air,rec.aviation.piloting
Tom P
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Default icao airport weather for anywhere

JA_MORAN schrieb:
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

The question was, are there any airfields with an IATA code but no ICAO
code.

T.

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