KEAT name history?

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? Pangborn landed on his famous trip at another airport (Fancher
Field) so that can't have anything to do with it (i.e. Fancher owning a
restuarant, etc.).

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
letter (nor K or N).

"Ken Finney" wrote in message
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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? Pangborn landed on his famous trip at another airport
(Fancher Field) so that can't have anything to do with it (i.e. Fancher
owning a restuarant, etc.).




Years ago ('70s) we could fly over from BFI in Seattle, land and park on
the usually very vacant ramp, and then spend the day hunting the grassland
between the runways at Wenatchee. Kept the big bird population down, got us
out of the city, and was a lot of fun.

Homeland Defense would probably have a cow today if a plane load of guys
hopped out with shotguns and started walking the airport grounds....

--
Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas

"tjd" wrote in message
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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
letter (nor K or N).

FYI Newark is EWR

Frank

On Jun 6, 11:05 am, "Frank Barchi" wrote:
FYI Newark is EWR

sorry, mild brain fart but the same logic applies...

Care to explain the logic of KGOO???

Jim

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"Frank Barchi" wrote in message
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"tjd" wrote in message
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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
letter (nor K or N).

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

Jim

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There are only 10 kinds of people in the world.
Those who count in binary and those who don't

"Frank Barchi" wrote in message

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"tjd" wrote in message
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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
letter (nor K or N).- Hide quoted text -

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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.

GOO ....funny name.


Montblack
"Just because it's June, June, June!"


("RST Engineering" wrote)
Care to explain the logic of KGOO???

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

I see it was recently changed from O17 to GOO - I have absolutely no
idea where they're coming up with the identifiers for these changes.
There's an airport near me, Zelienople Municipal Airport, that changed
from 8G7 to PJC and I can't figure out any connection. If anyone has
any insight I'd love to hear it...

todd.

In a previous article, tjd said:
There's an airport near me, Zelienople Municipal Airport, that changed
from 8G7 to PJC and I can't figure out any connection. If anyone has
any insight I'd love to hear it...

Since they changed from a non-ICAO id (i.e. one containing digits) to an
ICAO-eligible one, I assume they recently got an ASOS or AWOS. As for why
they picked that particular id, PJC, maybe it's just the best of the
remaining ids?


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