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77 relations: Air traffic control, Airport, Alphabetical order, Area control center, Atlanta, Austin–Bergstrom International Airport, Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, Broadcast call signs, Chattahoochee River, City limits, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Denver International Airport, Documentation, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Civil Aviation Agency, Garrison, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, Heliport, Hydrometeorology, Indianola Municipal Airport, Indianola, Mississippi, International Air Transport Association, International Civil Aviation Organization, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Knoxville, Tennessee, List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations, Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport, Marquette, Michigan, McGhee Tyson Airport, METAR, Miami, Miami International Airport, Military deployment, Mnemonic, Morristown, Tennessee, National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil, National Climatic Data Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, Navigation, New York City, Ninoy Aquino International Airport, North Carolina, Peachtree Creek, Port of entry, Radio control, ... Expand index (27 more) »
Air traffic control
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers (people) who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace.
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Airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.
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Alphabetical order
Alphabetical order is a system whereby character strings are placed in order based on the position of the characters in the conventional ordering of an alphabet.
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Area control center
In air traffic control, an area control center (ACC), also known as a center or en-route center, is a facility responsible for controlling aircraft flying in the airspace of a given flight information region (FIR) at high altitudes between airport approaches and departures.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Austin–Bergstrom International Airport
Austin–Bergstrom International Airport, or ABIA, is an international airport in Austin, Texas, United States, serving the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
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Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania
Bensalem Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is a city in the north central region of Alabama.
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Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport
Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport, formerly Birmingham Municipal Airport and later Birmingham International Airport, is a civil-military airport serving Birmingham, Alabama.
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Broadcast call signs
Broadcast call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to radio stations and television stations.
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Chattahoochee River
The Chattahoochee River is a river in the Southern United States.
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City limits
City limits or city boundaries refer to the defined boundary or border of a city.
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Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the North Texas region, in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex
The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, officially designated Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States, encompassing 11 counties.
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Denver International Airport
Denver International Airport, locally known as DIA, is an international airport in the Western United States, primarily serving metropolitan Denver, Colorado, as well as the greater Front Range Urban Corridor.
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Documentation
Documentation is any communicable material that is used to describe, explain or instruct regarding some attributes of an object, system or procedure, such as its parts, assembly, installation, maintenance, and use.
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Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.
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Federal Civil Aviation Agency
The Federal Civil Aviation Agency (Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil, AFAC) is a division of the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation of Mexico.
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Garrison
A garrison (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, "to equip") is any body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it.
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Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES), operated by the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service division, supports weather forecasting, severe storm tracking, and meteorology research.
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Heliport
A heliport, sometimes termed a vertiport, is a small airport suitable for use by helicopters and various types of vertical lift aircraft.
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Hydrometeorology
Hydrometeorology is a branch of meteorology and hydrology that studies the transfer of water and energy between the land surface and the lower atmosphere for academic research, commercial gain or operational forecasting purposes.
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Indianola Municipal Airport
Indianola Municipal Airport is a public use airport in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.
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Indianola, Mississippi
Indianola is a city in and the county seat of Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta.
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International Air Transport Association
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a trade association of the world's airlines founded in 1945.
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International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John F. Kennedy International Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport is a major international airport serving New York City and its metropolitan area, in the United States.
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Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States.
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List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations
Several sets of codes and abbreviations are used to represent the political divisions of the United States for postal addresses, data processing, general abbreviations, and other purposes.
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Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport
Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport, previously named Sawyer International Airport, is a county-owned, public-use airport in Marquette County, Michigan, United States.
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Marquette, Michigan
Marquette is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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McGhee Tyson Airport
McGhee Tyson Airport is a public/military airport south of Knoxville,.
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METAR
METAR is a format for reporting weather information.
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Miami
Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.
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Miami International Airport
Miami International Airport, also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field, is the primary international airport serving Miami, Florida and its metropolitan area with over 1,000 daily flights to 185 domestic and international destinations, including most countries in Latin America.
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Military deployment
Military deployment is the movement of armed forces and their logistical support infrastructure around the world.
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Mnemonic
A mnemonic device or memory device is any learning technique that aids information retention or retrieval in the human memory, often by associating the information with something that is easier to remember.
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Morristown, Tennessee
Morristown is a city in and the county seat of Hamblen County, Tennessee, United States.
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National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil
The National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), is the Brazilian civil aviation authority, created in 2005.
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National Climatic Data Center
The United States National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), previously known as the National Weather Records Center (NWRC), in Asheville, North Carolina, was the world's largest active archive of weather data.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States federal government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.
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Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Ninoy Aquino International Airport
Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA,;; Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Ninoy Aquino), also known as Manila International Airport (MIA), is the main international airport serving Metro Manila in the Philippines.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Peachtree Creek
Peachtree Creek is a major stream in Atlanta.
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Port of entry
In general, a port of entry (POE) is a place where one may lawfully enter a country.
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Radio control
Radio control (often abbreviated to RC) is the use of control signals transmitted by radio to remotely operate a device.
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Remote Automated Weather Station
The Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) system is a network of automated weather stations run by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and monitored by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), mainly to observe potential wildfire conditions.
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Research
Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".
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Robert Mueller Municipal Airport
Robert Mueller Municipal Airport (1930–1999, "Miller") was the first civilian airport built in Austin, Texas, United States.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
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Skydive Chicago Airport
Skydive Chicago Airport (FAA LID: 8N2) is a privately owned, public use airport located four miles northeast of Ottawa, Illinois.
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Sokol Airport
Sokol Airport, formally Vladimir Vysotsky International Airport (Аэропорт Сокол) is an airport in Sokol in Magadan Oblast, Russia.
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Stapleton International Airport
Stapleton International Airport was a major airport in the western United States, and the primary airport of Denver, Colorado.
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State and Experimental Aviation Point Location Index
State and/or Experimental Aviation Point Location Index (Индекс (указатель) местоположения пункта государственной и/или экспериментальной авиации) is a four-letter unique identifier assigned to the location of Russia's state aviation points (air bases, commandant's offices of airfields and airports, points of deployment of aviation units at joint-use airports, aviation control points, aviation training grounds and sports airfields), as well as experimental aviation points (experimental airfields, aviation factories). Location identifier and state and Experimental Aviation Point Location Index are aircraft operations and Navigational aids.
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Stone Mountain Airport
The Stone Mountain Airport, later also known as Stone Mountain Britt Memorial Airport (after the owner's wife), was a small privately run public-use airport located in Stone Mountain, Georgia (east-northeast of the mountain), United States, from around 1962 until 1996.
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Stream
A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.
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Stream gauge
A stream gauge, streamgage or stream gauging station is a location used by hydrologists or environmental scientists to monitor and test terrestrial bodies of water.
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Transport Canada
Transport Canada (Transports Canada) is the department within the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of road, rail, marine and air transportation in Canada.
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Turners Falls Airport
Turners Falls Airport, also referred to as Turners Falls Municipal Airport, is a town owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Montague, a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States.
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.
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UN/LOCODE
UN/LOCODE, the United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations, is a geographic coding scheme developed and maintained by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Customs Service
The United States Customs Service was a federal law enforcement agency of the U.S. federal government.
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United States Department of the Navy
The United States Department of the Navy (DON) is one of the three military departments within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.
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United States Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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Vinings, Georgia
Vinings is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cobb County, Georgia, United States that runs along the Chattahoochee River bank across from Buckhead.
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Weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the intensity of the precipitation.
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Weather satellite
A weather satellite or meteorological satellite is a type of Earth observation satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth.
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Weather station
A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate.
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Westover Air Reserve Base
Westover Air Reserve Base is an Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) installation located in the Massachusetts communities of Chicopee and Ludlow, near the city of Springfield, Massachusetts.
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World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics.
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557th Weather Wing
The 557th Weather Wing is a United States Air Force formation and its lead military meteorology center.
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References
Also known as FAA LID, FAA Location Identifier, Federal Aviation Administration airport code, Location identification, Location identification scheme, Location indicator.