Originally Posted by kappa

The TLA for the airport t/f you flew ±20 flights last year is ORD, named for the village of Orchard Place, site of a WW2 Douglas cargo plane factory airfield and subsequently purchased by the city of Chicago (CHI) for O’Hare airport.

BTW, I want to point out that most of the airports names cited above honored military pilots.

FYI, N (and W) cannot be the first letter of an airfield name; thus Newark is EWR, Norfolk is ORF and Williams is IWA, etc.