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Under this system, major Canadian airports begin with a Y, although there are a few other airports around the world that also start with a Y such as YUM for Yuma International Airport. That's because it was known originally as ORcharD Field.
In the United States, CW has learned, many airports' letters date back to codes used for weather stations. In the early days of aviation, according to a article in the journal of the Air Line Pilots Association, airlines simply copied a two-letter system used by the National Weather Service to identify cities around the United States that had weather stations. As airline service exploded in the s, the article says, "towns without weather-station codes needed identification.
Some bureaucrat had a brainstorm and the three-letter system was born, giving a seemingly endless 17, different combinations. The story is just as complicated as the codes themselves, but like most things in Canada it all comes down to the weather. These two-letter indicators tied to the local weather towers were often situated in locations that housed airports along with radio stations.
The call signs doubled as Morse code transmissions for pilots to use a navigational beacon to locate the airport. If there were no weather stations at the airport, a W would be administered for "without. Already familiar with the Y initial indicating an airport via its radio tower beacon system, Canada made the bold move to lay claim to the letter.
Snatching it up to signify all of its airports in a uniform fashion. By saying yes to the Y, Canada firmly aligned all its commercial airports with the same letter making it the only major country to assign IATA codes in this style.
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