{"id":658,"date":"2013-06-07T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=658"},"modified":"2013-06-07T11:55:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T15:55:06","slug":"did-you-know-june-7-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/did-you-know-june-7-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know? June 7, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>3-letter airport codes that end in &#8220;X&#8221; (LAX, PHX, PDX, etc.) are usually airports that existed with a 2-letter code before the 3-letter system began in the 1930s<\/li>\n<li>The National Park Service maintains a tiny airstrip at Kitty Hawk, NC, with the code FFA for First Flight Airport<\/li>\n<li>If an airport name or city begins with a K, N, Q, W, Y, or Z is cannot be used as the first letter in the 3-letter airport code as these are reserved for special uses &#8211; N denotes a Naval air field, K and W are radio stations, Y means the location is in Canada, Z that it is in cyberspace, and Q that it is an international telecommunications station<\/li>\n<li>Airports within 200 nautical miles may not duplicate 1st and 2nd, 2nd and 3rd, or 1st and 3rd letters of their 3-letter codes<\/li>\n<li>Since Dulles International Airport could not be called DIA because it was too close to DCA (Reagan National), the letters were reversed to become IAD<\/li>\n<li>London and New York City are recognized as being served by the most commercial airports, with 6 each<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles and Vancouver are right behind, with 5 commercial airports each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3-letter airport codes that end in &#8220;X&#8221; (LAX, PHX, PDX, etc.) are usually airports that existed with a 2-letter code before the 3-letter system began in the 1930s The National Park Service maintains a tiny airstrip at Kitty Hawk, NC, with the code FFA for First Flight Airport If an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}