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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, e.g. Montréal–Mirabel International Airport
• airport services and technologies, e.g. fixed-base operator, baggage handler, instrument landing system

Creation checklists

Airport WikiProject assessment statistics Airport pages by quality Quality Total FA 4 FL 1 GA 60 B 444 C 1,177 Start 4,874 Stub 7,693 List 602 Category 2,264 Disambig 469 File 904 Portal 1 Project 6 Redirect 2,291 Template 578 NA 4 Assessed 21,372 Unassessed 39 Total 21,411 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 76,688 Ω = 5.38 log • category

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 {{WikiProject Aviation|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
We encourage all members of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation to use the translation feature more often. There are many articles that can be created or expanded via translation. The Soviet Aviation Task force needs articles translated into English! Please feel free to join! The Aviation accident task force has a list of missing articles of aviation accidents and incidents that aren't covered on English Wikipedia. Missing women aviators is a small redlist of women aviators for whom we lack biographies. The defunct airlines project is now a task force of WikiProject Airlines – check it out and join today! Find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of aircraft A quick reference to aviation articles that are up for discussion and deletion is available - watchlist it and use it! Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Missing articles lists over 500 articles that require creating or redirecting. Dig in! A template is available to quickly create articles. Go to Template:WPAVIATION creator and start creating!
Articles for deletion 24 Oct 2026 – Francisco Mendes International Airport (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Danners430 (t · c) was closed as merge by Vanamonde93 (t · c) on 01 Nov 2026; see discussion (9 participants) Files for discussion 14 Jun 2026 – File:Wall Township Seal.png (talk · edit · hist) (on Wall Township, New Jersey) was FfDed by ForeverFlying (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 17 Sep 2026 – Ben Gurion Airport (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Balabush (t · c); start discussion 07 Sep 2026 – Ghanzi Airport (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Splains (t · c); start discussion 09 Jan 2026 – Jeddah International Airport (closed 1981) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bollardant (t · c); see discussion Requested moves 29 Oct 2026 – Orly Airport (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Paris Orly Airport by Asamboi (t · c); see discussion 26 Oct 2026 – Bauerfield International Airport (talk · edit · hist) move request to Port Vila International Airport by Asamboi (t · c) was moved to Port Vila International Airport (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 02 Nov 2026; see discussion 25 Oct 2026 – Cox's Bazar International Airport (talk · edit · hist) move request to Cox's Bazar Airport by Ahmed Sharif 1234 (t · c) was moved to Cox's Bazar Airport (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 01 Nov 2026; see discussion 21 Oct 2026 – New Ishigaki Airport (talk · edit · hist) move request to Ishigaki Airport by Gray eyes (t · c) was moved to Ishigaki Airport (talk · edit · hist); see discussion
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Attention needed

...to referencing and citation (28,940) • ...to coverage and accuracy (26,740) • ...to structure (15,648) • ...to grammar (22,620) • ...to supporting materials (21,621)

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. Lists of airports — 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	10
→ → Canada	37
→ → → Alberta	4
→ → → Atlantic Canada	17
→ → → British columbia	32
→ → → Manitoba	28
→ → → Northwest Territories	13
→ → → Ontario	32
→ → → Quebec	36
→ → → Saskatchewan	6
→ → United States	13
→ → → Midwestern United States	152
→ → → Northeastern United States	135
→ → → Southern United States	177
→ → → → Texas	52
→ → → Western United States	145
→ → → Alaska	233
→ → → California	101
→ → → Kansas	54
→ → → Michigan	45
→ → → North Carolina	49
→ → Mexico	49
→ South America	156
→ Oceania	205
→ → Australia	106
→ Africa	7
→ → North Africa	147
→ → East Africa	139
→ → Southern Africa	254
→ → West Africa	230
→ Europe	486
→ → France	59
→ → Turkey	45
→ → Russia	239
→ → United Kingdom	40
→ Asia	359
→ → India	75
→ → Indonesia	107
→ → People's Republic of China	0
→ → Pakistan	0

Other WikiProject details

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Aircraft
• WikiProject Airlines
• WikiProject Gliding

Resources

• AOPA Airport Advocacy Resources A good reference for those trying to understand the thorny issues.
• AOPA Airport Directory
• AirNav: Airports -- US site, based largely on the FAA's A/FD data (although revisions may take longer than 56 days to appear).
• Airport-Data.com
• Airportdata.com
• AirportGuide.com
• IATA Airline and Airport Code Search official IATA source
• World Airport Codes at U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• World Airport Codes another IATA code source but poor for coordinates and elevation
• Falling Rain Software, Ltd. Global Gazetteer Version 2.3 good source for information, sometimes has both ICAO & IATA codes. Pick a country and then scroll down to the airports in that country.
• COPA Community and Airports in Canada. See Canadian Community Airports Profile.
• FAA Airport Data and Information Portal -- pretty self-explanatory but a bit cumbersome to use.
• FAA Airport/Facility Directory
• FAA Airports home page
• ICAO Links to CAAs worldwide (ICAO official).
• OurAirports.com database of 78,000+ airports.
• Serbia Has several airports with basic information. Not sure how current the information is.
• VATSIM – Docs and Pilot Basics an odd one as it's a FlightSim site. It has external links to sites that have charts/AIPs of various aerodromes world wide.

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.

• International Civil Aviation Organization: ICAO API Data Service - requires free registration.
• 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 for some other sections (meteo, ...) but no longer for the AIP.
• Colombia: Aerocivil Colombia main site. Aerocivil Colombia AIP (in Spanish), direct link without the frames. No registration.
• Denmark, Greenland & the Faeroe Islands – no registration.
• Europe: Eurocontrol online list of AIS websites Eurocontrol Digitalisation and information management – requires free registration (they email a password) but has a lot of European airports. See bottom of page for various toolkits. Using the NOTAM section will also provide the IATA airport codes.
• Finland: Finavia – no registration
• France: SIA – no registration.
• Greece: Hellenic CAA – requires free registration.
• India
• Italy: ENAV – requires free registration, available in English and Italian.
• Netherlands no registration
• New Zealand – only 7 aerodromes as yet, no registration
• Norway – no registration
• Pakistan: PAA-eAIP and older CAA-eAIP - No registration
• Poland: Polish AIP – requires free registration
• Slovenia – only 3 aerodromes, no registration.
• Spain: Servicio de Información Aeronáutica (AIS & AIP España), maintianed by Enaire and the Spanish Air Force – no registration, regularly updated and includes information, procedures and charts from all airspace, commercial airports and air force bases in the country. Also has an interactive map [Insignia] covering all Spanish airspace with the option of using airspace charts or markers based in other charts and procedures as layers, although with lots of layers becomes very slow. Some sections of the website lack English translation, but all charts are bilingual.
• Turkey – all data from 2008 by month.
• United Kingdom: UK Aeronautical Information Service (AIS) – Requires free registration.
• United States: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Digital Products: AIS – publishes and distributes United States government civil aeronautical charts and flight information publications.
• Viet Nam: Viet Nam Air Traffic Management Corporation