The FAA offered them GAY, as in Sioux Gateway Airport. Pete have embraced their code the airport’s website is After more than 50 years being the butt of jokes, Sioux City officials in 1988 appealed to the Federal Aviation Administration to change the airport’s moniker. It’s on the site of the former Pinellas Army Airfield.Īs in Sioux City, the folks in St. Petersburg-Clearwater (Fla.) International Airport isn’t famous for its lemon meringue pies, even though its code is PIE. When the property - then a plantation - was sold to a livestock dealer, it was renamed in honor of the pilot: Moisant Stock Yards hence the code MSY.Īnd St. New Orleans’ airport is located, coincidentally, on the land on which pioneer aviator John Moisant died in a plane crash in 1910.
Chicago’s O’Hare Airport got ORD because it sits on the site of a former farming community known as Orchard Place.
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