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How the heck do they decide to call those...In some I can make out somehow....like LIRF....

L=???
I=Italy
R=Rome
F=Fiumicino

EBOS

E=Europe
B=Belgium
OS=Ostend?

Any one have any links for my info...this question has had me thinking for a while now...
Cheers,
Ashar

I find them somehow confusing too.
Like Italy, that's a part of europe, yet their ICAO's don't start with an E, like most european contries..

As far as I know, countries which are generally considered in Northern Europe have an ICAO code beginning E, whereas those in Southern Europe/Mediterranean/the Balkans start with an L. Hence L for Spain, Italy and Crotia, and E for the UK, Denmark and Lithuania.

All the ones in Britain start with EG.
This site may help.
http://www8.landings.com/cgi-bin/get_fi ... refix.html
     
ICAO Airport Code Prefixes

Country      Valid ICAO Code Prefixes
AFGHANISTAN      OA
AL JAZA'IR (ALGERIA)      DA
ALBANIA      LA
AMERICAN SAMOA      NS
ANGOLA      FN
ANGUILLA      TQ
ANTARCTICA      NZ,SA,SC
ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA      TA
ARGENTINA      SA
ARMENIA      UD
AUSTRALIA      Y
AUSTRIA      LO
AZERBAIJAN      UB
BAHAMAS      MY
BAHRAIN      OB
BANGLADESH      VG
BARBADOS      TB
BELARUS      UM
BELGIQUE/BELGI

Excellent link Ben...but it doesn't tell me why they name it like that

Excellent link Ben...but it doesn't tell me why they name it like that

There's not always a purpose.  Sometimes it just is

The major airports often got ICAOs that roughly correspond to their name-

KBOS Boston Logan Int'l
KJFK JFK Int'l
KPHL Philadelphia
KATL Atlanta

etc.

But when they run out, you take what you can get.  There's no hidden scientific formula here, these are picked by people-it's not like the ICAOs are computer generated or anything, there's no method.

I always found the code for Little Rock, Arkansas particularly funny.

I always found the code for Little Rock, Arkansas particularly funny.

I believe I actually laughed when I saw it the first time. (sorry, I may be 17 going on 50 but I'm still a little juvenile )

I always found the code for Little Rock, Arkansas particularly funny.

......while on the subject.....

Rapid City, South Dakota is one of my personal favorites.

Last year we were flying over west Texas and my F/O asked me "where the heck are we?" I told him "slightly east of the M.F.N.!" Then I hit the nearest airport function on the GPS and it indicated that we were 10nm east of BFE (Brownsfield).

Stockholm

ESSA

Europe
Sweden
Stockholm
Arlanda

I always found the code for Little Rock, Arkansas particularly funny.

What is the code for it?

What is the code for it?

KLIT.

*giggles*

What is the code for it?

Gooogling is a man's best friend Theis...

KLIT.

*giggles*

Nice

Nice code!!

RAF Lakenheath has a fitting ICAO : EGUL