Talk:International Civil Aviation Organization airport code

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The code list does not show what codes are used for:

* American Samoa
* Andorra
* Antarctica
* Bouvet Island
* Faroe Islands
* French Southern Territories
* Heard Island, McDonald Islands
* Liechtenstein
* Martinique
* Palestinian Authority areas
* Pitcairn Island (no airport, but surely a weather station)
* St. Helena
* St. Pierre and Miquelon
* San Marino
* South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (British Antarctic Terr?)
* Svalbard, Jan Mayen I
* Tokelau Is

The scheme does not indicate if a prefix code has been designated for extraterrestrial sites such as stations in Earth orbit or on the Moon, although such stations can be expected to be within the reach of civil aviation within the lifetime of this scheme.

Contents 1 maps 2 Is that list "official"? 3 ICAO code rules 4 Camp Canargus, Haiti 5 ICAO codes are not comprehensive 6 How the .... did they come up with these? 7 Shouldn't Major Countries Be Listed On Top? 8 Australian Islands 9 Map requested

[edit] maps

the maps cover the grid. this should be fixed. i'd do it myself, but since most of you are wikinazis and i don't want to offend the almighty wikigods, i'll let one of the trekkies do it instead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.115.125.141 (talk) 18:40, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Is that list "official"?

There are a few entries in the list that I'm not really fond of, but since I don't know whether the names used in the list are "official", I don't want to edit it. 1. K for "mainland USA", but a separate letter for Alaska. To me, Alaska is on the mainland. "Contiguous 48 states" seems more appropriate to me, if the intention is to exclude Alaska, Hawaii, and the overseas territories. 2. "F - southern Africa " includes central Africa too. Shouldn't that be indicated? 3. WP, Timor Leste. East Timor seems more appropriate on the English wikipedia, to me. So, if the things mentioned above are "as stated by ICAO", just ignore this. But if they're not (and you can get a source on that), go ahead and edit accordingly! 85.224.199.36 09:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ICAO code rules

Am I correct in assuming that the letters of airport and navaids (VORs, etc.) must be upper case? Are numbers allowed? Can anyone name the ICAO document containing the guidelines that cover the naming rules?

• To the anon, convention always places them in uppercase. I have seen no instance where they are different. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 23:26, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Camp Canargus, Haiti

Does anyone have any info on this place? It's the only C listing ICAO code outside Canada. All Google has is the weather for it. Thanks CambridgeBayWeather 08:13, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ICAO codes are not comprehensive

There are thousands of airports that don't have ICAO codes.

[edit] How the .... did they come up with these?

How on earth did Australia end up with Y, given the countries that have codes starting with A? This is indeed the most bizarre list of codes I've ever seen! (not being sceptical - but they don't make much sense to a n00B!)

Garrie 03:17, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shouldn't Major Countries Be Listed On Top?

It would be easier to find information if the major countries be listed in a seperate table. This way you won't have to scroll through all the ones hardly anyone would care to read.

How do you know that people don't want to read the others or choose which countries are major? Doing so would violate Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 10:59, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

• My apologies for putting U.S. and canada on top. I am new to editing wikipedia and was not aware of the Wikipedia:Neutral point of view policy. Since people from other countries view the English Wikipedia, I will undo my edit and I take back my comment on major countries. I promise to only give helpful ideas next time that don't voilate any policies.
• Thank you CambridgeBayWeather for reverting my mistake for me.

[edit] Australian Islands

Cocos Island, Christmas Island and Norfolk Island Share the 'Y' ICAO prefix with Australia. Qaanaaq 06:35, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Map requested

The article provides good information about the mapping of the first or first two letters of the ICAO code to the location. This is best shown as a map, for example: South Africa as "FA", Moscow-area of Russia as "UU", Southern India as "VO" etc. In some cases such as the continental USA and Canada, the second letter does not usually map to the location, so they could go by the first letter alone as "K" or "C". I have added a note on WP:RP. -- Brhaspati\^talk/_contribs 00:35, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I think you added the present maps after your above request. If the request has been satisfied please remove the request from the top of this Talk page and from WP:RP. (SEWilco 21:30, 17 September 2007 (UTC))