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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, eg Montréal-Mirabel International Airport
• airport services and technologies, eg Fixed base operator, Baggage handler, Instrument Landing System

Creation Checklists

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 {{WPAVIATION|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
A quick reference to aviation articles that are up for discussion and deletion is now available - watchlist it and use it! A new template updates you on current articles under review, and needing your input. Add {{WPAVIATION Review alerts}} to your userpage, and keep in the loop! Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles now lists almost 5000 articles that require creating or redirecting. Dig in! Aircraft engines now have a piece of the project banner. Enter |Engines=yes on any engine page you find! A new 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!
Proposed deletions 29 Jan 2012 – Ben Ya'akov Airport (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Gilabrand (t · c) was deleted A-Class review 14 Dec 2010 – Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review by Abhishek191288 (t · c); see discussion 14 Dec 2010 – Bengaluru International Airport (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review by Abhishek191288 (t · c); see discussion 03 Nov 2010 – Cochin International Airport (talk · edit · hist) was put up for A-Class review by Arunvarmaother (t · c); see discussion Good article reviews 07 Sep 2011 – Ellington International Airport (Texas) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA review by Postoak (t · c); start discussion Requests for comments 08 Feb 2012 – Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports (talk · edit · hist) RfC by Trevj (t · c) was closed; see discussion
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Attention needed 

...to referencing and citation (17,467) • ...to coverage and accuracy (17,087) • ...to structure (16,180) • ...to grammar (16,087) • ...to supporting materials (16,187)

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. List of Airports and Airfields — 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	114
→ → Canada	72
→ → → Alberta	192
→ → → Atlantic Canada	101
→ → → British Columbia	212
→ → → British Columbia	212
→ → → Manitoba	134
→ → → Northwest Territories	67
→ → → Ontario	332
→ → → Quebec	193
→ → → Saskatchewan	167
→ → United States	10
→ → → Midwestern United States	223
→ → → Northeastern United States	170
→ → → Southern United States	204
→ → → → Texas	87
→ → → Western United States	125
→ → → Alaska	106
→ → → Arizona	36
→ → → California	163
→ → → Kansas	27
→ → → Michigan	69
→ → → Nevada	34
→ → → North Carolina	43
→ → Mexico	117
→ South America	230
→ Oceania	257
→ → Australia	210
→ Africa	2
→ → North Africa	119
→ → East Africa	93
→ → Southern Africa	120
→ → West Africa	211
→ Europe	472
→ → Albania	2
→ → France	60
→ → Turkey	44
→ → Russia	248
→ → United Kingdom	90
→ Asia	534
→ → India	40
→ → Indonesia	62
→ → People's Republic of China	131
→ → Pakistan	53

Other WikiProject details

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Aircraft
• WikiProject Airlines
• WikiProject Gliding

Resources

• AOPA Airport Minimum Standards A good reference for those trying to understand the thorny issues.
• World Aero Data Very reliable.
• 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 source 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).
• World Airport Database, another comprehensive source.

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.

• 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.
• Colombia: Aerocivil Colombia main site. Aerocivil Colombia AIP, direct link without the frames. No registration.
• Denmark, Greenland & the Faeroe Islands - no registration.
• Europe: Eurocontrol Basic - requires free registration (they email a password) but has a lot of European airports. Also requires Java, allowing pop-ups. Not the easiest site to navigate. Using the NOTAM section will also provide the IATA airport codes.
• Finland: Finavia – no registration
• Italy: ENAV - requires free registration, abailable 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.
• United Kingdom: UK Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) - Requires free registration. Very buggy site, get logged out after a few minutes of non-use. May have to try it several times as site often will not load beyond the start page.
• United States: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO) - publishes and distributes United States government civil aeronautical charts and flight information publications.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Airports

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