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Welcome to Wikiproject: Airports

Contents

[edit] Introduction

This WikiProject aims primarily to make airport articles have a consistent feel.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Templates

The following templates are used by this project:

Template Result Usage
{{airport-stub}}
This article about an airport is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it


Plus inclusion in Category:Airport stubs

 Stub articles relating to airports
{{AirportProject}}
WikiProject Airports is part of WikiProject Airports, an attempt to better organize information in articles related to airports. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
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WikiProject Airports To-do:
Aviation Portal - Media on Wikimedia Commons
Talk pages of airport articles
{{User WikiProject Airports}}
This user is a member of WikiProject Airports.
User pages of members of the WikiProject

[edit] Creation Checklists

[edit] Creation of a new Airport

  1. Categorize correctly
  2. Add link from 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
  3. Add the ICAO Airport Code, and the IATA Airport Code. Note that for smaller domestic-only airports there may be no code assigned. Use the {{airport codes}} template as follows:
    1. For just the IATA code, use {{airport codes|EDI}} for (IATA: EDI)
    2. For just the ICAO code, use {{airport codes||EGPH}} for (ICAO: EGPH)
      1. If both IATA and ICAO codes are available, use {{airport codes|EDI|EGPH}} for (IATA: EDI, ICAO: EGPH)
    3. For small general aviation airports in the US without either an IATA or ICAO code, use {{airport codes|||S16}} for (FAA LID: S16)
  4. Create redirect articles for the ICAO and IATA Codes.
  5. Add {{AirportProject}} template to the talk page.

[edit] 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

[edit] Airport article structure

This list is not complete and could use some general comments on what should be provided.

Consider including the following headings in each article:

  • An infobox, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports/infobox
  • Introduction
  • History
  • Airlines and destinations if only one terminal or terminal(s) not identified otherwise Terminals and destinations Include an entry for each major terminal. Unless otherwise listed, the terminal is expected to be a passenger terminal (not cargo).
    1. Do not list secondary carriers for code share flights. For example, if Air New Zealand operates a domestic flight under its own flight number and an additional Singapore Airlines codeshare, the codeshare should not be listed.
    2. For flights operated by one airline but marketed by another, so that the flight uses only the marketing airline's flight number, avoid using the term dba, an abbreviation of the American business term doing business as. The preferred notation is:
    3. Differentiate between multiple airports in one city using "-" (eg London-Heathrow) or (London Heathrow).
    4. List city names, do not wikilink them.
    5. List non-stop and direct flights only. That means the flight number and the aircraft, starts at this airport and continues to one or more airports. Avoid using the description 'via' since that is more correctly listed as another destination. If passengers can not disembark at a stop on a direct flight, then do not list it as a destination or as 'via'. Direct flights are not always non-stop flights. However, avoid listing most domestic United States direct flights, as virtually all of these are simply flights from one "spoke city" to a hub, with the plane continuing from the hub to a second spoke city. Including these flights dramatically increases the length of destination listings, artificially inflates the airline's presence at a location and requires constant updating, as these "timetable direct" destinations have little rhyme or reason and may change as often as every week or two.
    6. For flights that do not operate year round, add - seasonal - after the destination.
  • External links A link to the airport's web site. If the entry has an infobox then links to mapping sites are available by clicking on the linked coordinates.
  • Optionally you can add Template:AirportProject to the article's discussion page (insert {{AirportProject}}) so other editors are directed to this project.

[edit] Ongoing Maintenance

  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


[edit] Things to create/for discussion

  1. infobox — go to infobox for discussion/ideas
  2. standard layout — go to layout for discussion/ideas
  3. List of Airports and Airfields — complete list — do we really need this?
  4. Naming conventions — go to naming conventions
  5. Categorization — go to categorization
  6. Images without an article— go to Images without article
  7. Possible sources for getting airport Lat/Long, elevation, distance from city, runway info: resources

[edit] Areas requiring clean up

As of October 24, 2006 the following categories contained:


Airports requiring clean up:

The airport's website uses the current name, and the old name wins by a factor of more than 30 in a googlefight.

[edit] Clean up completed

[edit] Airports that need an infobox

If there are some airports that need an infobox and you do not think you can add it yourself, please add an entry to Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports/infobox#Airports that need an infobox.

[edit] Resources

  • World Aero Data Very reliable but most of the data is obtained from DAFIF which will no longer be available after 1 October 2006.
  • The Airport Guide good source for airport information and can help with finding official sites for airports.
  • A - Z World Airports good source, usually has both ICAO/IATA and sometimes the official site.
  • airlinecodes.co.uk to look up both ICAO and IATA codes
  • World Airport Codes another IATA code sorce but poor for coordinates and elevation
  • Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. good source for information, sometimes has both ICAO & IATA codes. Pick a country and then scroll down to the airports in that country.
  • COPA Places to Fly in Canada. Some information on Canadian airports. Good as external link.
  • Serbia Has several airports with basic information. Not sure how current the information is.
  • VATSIM - Navigation Charts and Flight Planning Tools an odd one as it's a FlightSim site. It has external links to sites that have charts/AIPs of various aerodromes world wide. Read the paragraph at the top first.
  • AirNav -- US site, based largely on the FAA's A/FD data (although revisions may take longer than 56 days to appear).
  • FAA data downloads -- pretty self-explanatory but a bit cumbersome to use.
  • Digital A/FD from NACO, covers United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Pacific territories (still in introductory/experimental stage).

[edit] Aeronautical Information Publications (AIP)

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