Join Date: May 2012
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I can’t find the good blog post that talked history of many of the unusual airport codes that was from 10 or so years ago.
many airport codes are derived from old 2 letter codes like LA to LAX, PD to PDX.
in Canada the weather stations they had 2 letter codes. Canada had all the ones with airports at the time start with Y , the ones start with W.
names come from what was there originally MSY …the M is the person name and SY was stock yards iirc
MCI for mid continent
SDF standiford field
BNA berry field
leading Ns were reserved for navy/ military