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Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, but Ada Municipal Airport is ADH to the FAA and ADT to the IATA [2] (which assigned ADH to Aldan Airport in Aldan, Russia [3]). Scheduled service at Ada from 1950 to 1963 was first in Beechcraft Bonanzas, then Douglas DC-3's, operated by Central Airlines
Data dissemination is usually via an automated VHF airband radio frequency (108-137 MHz) at each airport, broadcasting the automated weather observation. This is often via the automatic terminal information service (ATIS). Most automated weather stations also have discrete phone numbers to retrieve real-time observations over the phone or ...
"United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations". UN/LOCODE 2011-2. UNECE. 28 February 2012. - includes IATA codes "ICAO Location Indicators by State" (PDF). International Civil Aviation Organization. 17 September 2010.
The airport is unattended. [1] For the 12-month period ending July 8, 2008, the airport had 555 aircraft operations, an average of 46 per month: 99% general aviation and 1% military. At that time there were 17 aircraft based at this airport: 82% single-engine and 18% ultralight. [1] Remarks: [1] Deer on and in the vicinity of airport.
TAMDAR (Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting) [1] is a weather monitoring system that consists of an in situ atmospheric sensor mounted on commercial aircraft for data gathering. It collects information similar to that collected by radiosondes carried aloft by weather balloons .
A typical METAR contains data for the airport identifier, time of observation, wind direction and speed, visibility, current weather phenomena such as precipitation, cloud cover and heights, temperature, dew point, and barometric pressure. This information forms the body of the report, consisting a maximum of 11 groups of information.
A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for staffed air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.
Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System (AMeDAS), commonly known in Japanese as "アメダス" (amedasu), is a high-resolution surface observation network developed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) used for gathering regional weather data and verifying forecast performance. The system began operating on 1 November 1974, and ...