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Welcome to the Airports WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of airports.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

• Improve Wikipedia's coverage of airports.
• Create guidelines for articles about airports.

Scope

• airports, e.g. Montréal–Mirabel International Airport
• airport services and technologies, e.g. fixed base operator, baggage handler, instrument landing system

Creation checklists

Airport WikiProject assessment statistics Airport pages by quality Quality Total FA 4 FL 1 GA 54 B 418 C 1,008 Start 4,629 Stub 9,101 List 595 Category 1,170 Disambig 393 File 5 Portal 1 Project 5 Redirect 603 Template 302 NA 1,016 Assessed 19,305 Unassessed 6 Total 19,311 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 83,179 Ω = 5.47 log • category

Creation of a new Airport

See also: Template:WPAVIATION creator

1. Do a search on the ICAO Airport Code, IATA Airport Code, FAA LID, and TC LID as appropriate; the article may already exist under another name.

   Note: for smaller domestic-only airports there may be few or no codes assigned.

2. Create the article using the correct name and using the content and structure identified by the project.
3. Include the {{Infobox Airport}} template at the top of the article and complete all available information.
4. For US airports, include the {{US-airport}} template for automatic inclusion of links from airport-related sites.
5. Categorize the article correctly.
6. Add links from the article for the main city that it serves and the city or cities the airport is actually located in or nearest to, so as not to create an orphan. An {{airport codes}} template can be included in these non-airport articles, but should not be included in airport articles; it duplicates information in the {{Infobox Airport}} template.
7. Create redirect articles for the ICAO and IATA Codes.
8. Check that the new airport name is listed in all appropriate sub-lists of the List of Airports.
9. Create a talk page for the article including {{WikiProject Aviation|Airports-project=yes}}

Creation of a new Airport Category

1. Find all relevant airports
2. Add to Airports category
3. Add to the geographic category: I.e Airports of the United States in United States

Ongoing maintenance

Aviation WikiProject announcements and open tasks
We encourage all members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation to use the translation feature more often. There are many articles that can be created or expanded via translation. The Soviet Aviation Task force needs articles translated into English! Please feel free to join! The Aviation accident task force has a list of missing articles of major aviation accidents that aren't covered on English Wikipedia. Missing women aviators is a small redlist of women aviators for whom we lack biographies. The defunct airlines project is now a task force of WikiProject Airlines – check it out and join today! Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of aircraft A quick reference to aviation articles that are up for discussion and deletion is available - watchlist it and use it! Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles lists over 500 articles that require creating or redirecting. Dig in! A template is available to quickly create articles. Go to Template:WPAVIATION creator and start creating! The collaboration and review departments are open. Please visit and nominate or help review articles!
Good article nominees 06 Oct 2024 – Columbus Airport (Georgia) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Mccunicano (t · c); start discussion 15 Jun 2024 – Chennai International Airport (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Magentic Manifestations (t · c); start discussion Good article reassessments 18 Dec 2024 – Melbourne Airport (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion Requested moves 13 Dec 2024 – Malacca International Airport (talk · edit · hist) move request to Malacca Airport by The Bangsawan (t · c) was moved to Malacca Airport (talk · edit · hist) by Frost (t · c) on 20 Dec 2024; see discussion Articles to be merged 19 Nov 2024 – Bowie Municipal Airport (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Bowie, Texas by Carguychris (t · c); see discussion 10 Sep 2024 – Ferris Red Oak Muni Heliport (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Ferris, Texas by Carguychris (t · c); see discussion Articles to be split 10 Sep 2023 – Ibaraki Airport (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Harashisaki (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation 26 Dec 2024 – Draft:Lanna International Airport (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Bollardant (t · c) 23 Nov 2024 – Draft:Valdahon Airfield (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KeyMen12 (t · c) 28 Oct 2024 – Draft:Aérodrome communal de Rodez-Onet-le-Château (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KeyMen12 (t · c) 10 Dec 2024 – Draft:Kalix Airfield (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by KeyMen12 (t · c) was declined by MWFwiki (t · c) on 20 Dec 2024
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Attention needed

...to referencing and citation (26,826) • ...to coverage and accuracy (24,653) • ...to structure (13,542) • ...to grammar (20,573) • ...to supporting materials (19,792)

Requested articles

Write new articles • Wikiproject Airports list of requested articles

Expansion needed

Add Infobox to articles • Airport articles needing Infobox • Expand articles • Stub class Airport articles • Start class Airport articles • List of airports in Tennessee

Tagging needed

Add Aviation task force tags to articles on the list of articles with no associated task force

1. Category:Airports – keep up to date
2. Article count by country – country
3. Add list of airports to each category for those we need to create
4. Interwiki links – interwiki

Things to create/for discussion

1. infobox — go to infobox for discussion/ideas
2. Lists of airports — complete list
3. Naming conventions — go to naming conventions
4. Categorization — go to categorization
5. Images without an article— go to Images without article
6. Possible sources for getting airport Lat/Long, elevation, distance from city, runway info: resources

Areas requiring clean up

Airport Articles tagged with
{{stub}} tags

Stubs	Total
Airport stubs	20
→ North American airport stubs	11
→ → Canada	82
→ → → Alberta	220
→ → → Atlantic Canada	105
→ → → British columbia	198
→ → → Manitoba	131
→ → → Northwest Territories	66
→ → → Ontario	439
→ → → Quebec	204
→ → → Saskatchewan	170
→ → United States	14
→ → → Midwestern United States	160
→ → → Northeastern United States	139
→ → → Southern United States	169
→ → → → Texas	56
→ → → Western United States	142
→ → → Alaska	237
→ → → California	107
→ → → Kansas	55
→ → → Michigan	46
→ → → North Carolina	49
→ → Mexico	54
→ South America	158
→ Oceania	207
→ → Australia	108
→ Africa	7
→ → North Africa	156
→ → East Africa	147
→ → Southern Africa	259
→ → West Africa	253
→ Europe	561
→ → France	63
→ → Turkey	47
→ → Russia	245
→ → United Kingdom	44
→ Asia	342
→ → India	79
→ → Indonesia	154
→ → People's Republic of China	76
→ → Pakistan	37

Other WikiProject details

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Aircraft
• WikiProject Airlines
• WikiProject Gliding

Resources

• AOPA Airport Advocacy Resources A good reference for those trying to understand the thorny issues.
• AOPA Airport Directory
• AirNav: Airports -- US site, based largely on the FAA's A/FD data (although revisions may take longer than 56 days to appear).
• Airport-Data.com
• Airportdata.com
• The Airport Guide good source for airport information and can help with finding official sites for airports.
• IATA Airline and Airport Code Search official IATA source
• World Airport Codes at U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• World Airport Codes another IATA code source but poor for coordinates and elevation
• Falling Rain Software, Ltd. Global Gazetteer Version 2.3 good source for information, sometimes has both ICAO & IATA codes. Pick a country and then scroll down to the airports in that country.
• COPA Community and Airports in Canada. See Canadian Community Airports Profile.
• FAA Airport Data and Information Portal -- pretty self-explanatory but a bit cumbersome to use.
• FAA Airport/Facility Directory
• FAA Airports home page
• ICAO Links to CAAs worldwide (ICAO official).
• OurAirports.com database of 78,000+ airports.
• Serbia Has several airports with basic information. Not sure how current the information is.
• VATSIM – Docs and Pilot Basics an odd one as it's a FlightSim site. It has external links to sites that have charts/AIPs of various aerodromes world wide.

Aeronautical Information Publications (AIP)

If using these it's best to turn off any adblockers that are running, especially if they block based on the letters "AD" appearing next to each other.

• International Civil Aviation Organization: ICAO API Data Service - requires free registration.
• Australia: Airservices Australia En-Route Supplement Australia (ERSA) – click the copyright notice first, then look at the ERSA section. Plenty of information for all Australian airports.
• Belgium: Belgocontrol, very complete and well maintained. Free registration required for some other sections (meteo, ...) but no longer for the AIP.
• Colombia: Aerocivil Colombia main site. Aerocivil Colombia AIP (in Spanish), direct link without the frames. No registration.
• Denmark, Greenland & the Faeroe Islands – no registration.
• Europe: Eurocontrol online list of AIS websites Eurocontrol Digitalisation and information management – requires free registration (they email a password) but has a lot of European airports. See bottom of page for various toolkits. Using the NOTAM section will also provide the IATA airport codes.
• Finland: Finavia – no registration
• France: SIA – no registration.
• Greece: Hellenic CAA – requires free registration.
• India
• Italy: ENAV – requires free registration, available in English and Italian.
• Netherlands no registration
• New Zealand – only 7 aerodromes as yet, no registration
• Norway – no registration
• Poland: Polish AIP – requires free registration
• Slovenia – only 3 aerodromes, no registration.
• Spain: Servicio de Información Aeronáutica (AIS & AIP España), maintianed by Enaire and the Spanish Air Force – no registration, regularly updated and includes information, procedures and charts from all airspace, commercial airports and air force bases in the country. Also has an interactive map [Insignia] covering all Spanish airspace with the option of using airspace charts or markers based in other charts and procedures as layers, although with lots of layers becomes very slow. Some sections of the website lack English translation, but all charts are bilingual.
• Turkey – all data from 2008 by month.
• United Kingdom: UK Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) – Requires free registration.
• United States: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Digital Products: AIS – publishes and distributes United States government civil aeronautical charts and flight information publications.