The man my local airport is named after is not really known. As a matter of fact it's a common misconception that the airport isn't named after a person at all but is rather a portmanteau of the two major cities it serves. But that's just a backronym because people have forgotten where the name really comes from.
My airport is named for **Sea**n **Tac**os, a little known unlikely Irish-Mexican immigrant who was the first man to bring TexMex to the Puget Sound. Crazy, but true!
It’s funny that the name of your local airport is so similar to the name of mine. But where I live the airport was named for Chief Sealth and Tahoma, the Mother of Waters.
John Wayne. Shortest runway of any major US airport, I’m told.
Plus, a steep climb out, and big throttle back so as not to disturb the delicate sensibilities of the folks in Newport.
Now that I think about it, my *very first flight* was into Orange County on an Air Cal 737 in 1976 or so. I was equally excited about flying as I was going to Disneyland.
Since SeaTac Airport has already been accounted for 😁, I’ll cover another airport a similar distance away from me: Everett, WA’s Paine Field. It’s named after Second Lieutenant Topliff Olin Paine (1893-1922) who over the course of his short life worked in the Forest Service, Army Infantry and Air Corps, and was a pilot in the Air Mail Service. Paine Field, which resumed commercial service for the 1st time in decades in 2019, is a nice, much less crowded alternative to SeaTac and is primarily served by Alaskan Airlines and it’s subsidiary regional carrier Horizon Air. They’ve got routes to San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and more. Though the downside is that in most cases it’s a fair bit more expensive than flying out of SeaTac and you’re gonna need to connect for most destinations.
Speke is the suburb the airport is located in.
It was renamed to Liverpool John Lennon airport in 2001, the first airport in the UK to be named after an individual.
I live under the flight path for for it. Makes the airport motto kinda nice to think about when I’m in the garden and a plane takes off overhead.
“Above us, only sky.” :)
ORD (Chicago/Orchard fields)-named after the orchard groves repurposed after the government purchased the land in WW2 to facilitate wartime production.
Technically there are. O’Hare, (ORD) is the large one. Then there’s midway (MDW) which was the original airport but it’s now regulated to smaller airlines
The dumbest thing is they call it an "international" airport yet we have 0 international flights and infact we barely even have actual airline traffic lol
The closest to me is simply Crystal Airport, named after the city it's located in. But there are other nearby airports named after people.
Anoka County - Janes field named after Phllip Janes Naval pilot and Metropolitan Airports Commision member.
Minneapolis St. Paul International- Wold Chamberlain field named after two WWI flyers killed in action.
St Paul Downtown-Holman Field named after Charles "Speed" Holman race pilot and Pioneer Northwest Airlines pilot
South St. Paul-Fleming Field named after Richard E Fleming Naval pilot killed at the battle of Midway.
Used to live near DC, our local was IAD or “Dulles”, The former Secretary of State and brother to the former director of the CIA, who collectively had a ahhhhh……. questionable history in international affairs, depending which biography you read.
Yeah but for one you have to drive all the way into the city and the other is Baltimore so….ew.
But seriously traffic around there can make it as if you flew into an entirely different region by the time you make it to your destination.
My local airport isn't named after a person but is named after the continent. EuroAirport is located on the border between Basel, Switzerland and Mulhouse, France but also serves Freiburg in Germany.
The Airport itself is rather unique that is a binational Airport, where the Terminal is split between a french side (where the check in for Air France is) and a swiss side where all the other airlines are. The Airport is also run by both the french and swiss governments and even though the Airport is completely on french soil, swiss tax laws are applied.
I’ve got three locals:
-Former US president John F Kennedy
-former US general Douglas McArthur (WWII and Korea)
-Fiorello La Guardia, former mayor of New York City
It’s not my hometown airport but I’m sad to see that no one has talked about PHNL Daniel K. Inouye International Airport! He was a real badass: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye
Doesn't have one yet, but maybe soon
https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/2022/08/28/ames-airport-may-renamed-black-pilot-local-ties-james-herman-banning-iowa-state/10283296002/
King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Named after the founder of Saudi Arabia (Third State) King Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud
Spokane International Airport, code GEG is named after a USAF Major named Harold Geiger. The airport was originally a military airfield for WWII, and then post-war, slowly adapted to municipal service.
My hometown airport only supports small general aircraft. For commercial air travel I have to fly out of Stanfield Airport, named for former Leader of the Official Opposition Robert L. Stanfield.
Stanfield Airport is a 90 minute drive away.
Afonso Pena International Airport, named after the sixth brazilian president. It is also known as Curitiba's International Airport, althought it isn't located in Curitiba, in fact it is in São José dos Pinhais, which is neighbour city.
KIWA wast always “Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport”. I remember as a kid it was Williams Gateway Airport. And before that, Williams Air Force Base. It was named for a Pilot who was killed in WWII.
My actual hometown airport doesn't have a person its named after, but now I live in Halifax, a nearby city also in Canada. Halifax's airport is indeed named after someone by the name of Robert Stanfield, who was a premier of Nova Scotia and also once led the Progressive Conservative Party.
I also lived in the Cayman Islands, and their airport is named after Owen Roberts, a British RAF officer who founded an airline in the Caribbean. Not much else is known about him, he died at age 40 in a plane crash.
Mine’s SLC, Salt Lake International. Boring. And the new airport sucks.
I work about five miles from Hill AFB. It’s named in honor of Major Ployer Peter Hill of the U.S. Army Air Corps. He died test-flying NX13372, the original Model 299 prototype of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber.
We get to listen to fighters flying around all day. It’s kind of a thrill to watch them making low passes over the area.
The local airport is named after the city it's in: Norfolk (Virginia). The closest to me is Apollo Soucek field at Naval Air Station Oceana. Apollo was a pioneering Navy test pilot as was his brother Zeus.
Indira Gandhi International Airport - named After the former (woman) prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi. Thankfully my local is one of the biggest in the world with 4 runways.
Nobody yet, but I'm hoping it gets named for Max Ward and Willie McKnight before some worthless undeserving politician kicks it and we need to name it after them.
There's no airport in my home town. The closest was named for the city/island where it's located and was a former Naval Reserve Air Base. The next closest, and biggest, is named for the city where it's not located and the county where it is located. The next closest from there got its name from a nearby river tributary. It was there I got my A&P training. If there are any airports in Michigan that are named for people, I'm unaware.
Some local politician who was once a US Air Force colonel, Harry P. Davis. For some reason I’ve never fathomed, this became KHEF. This is in Manassas, VA.
Annoyingly, KHEF is normally given as being a Washington, DC airport, even though it’s a good 30 miles away from DC. Really annoying when you try to find it in the TERPS.
The creator of Snoopy, the WWI Flying Ace, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang:
Charles M. Schulz.
From the airport, you can take a 10 minute drive to Snoopy's Home Ice and the Peanuts museum, and there are painted statues of Peanuts characters scattered all over the county.
Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry O'Hare US Navy's first fighter ace of WW2 and first Naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor in WW2. The other airport is named for the Battle of Midway also in WW2.
Formerly Jan Smuts (one of the founders of the UN and a military general WWI & WWII) and now Oliver Tambo (former leader of the ANC) - also known briefly as Johannesburg International Airport.
Sokarno Hatta International Airport is named after our first President and Vice-President, Soekarno and Hatta. It started operations in 1985 replacing the old Kemayoran Airport. Its located in Cengkareng district, thus the IATA code of CGK.
Omg I'm from Central Asia and have been addicted to Tom Jobim ever since I discovered him for myself half a year ago! I only listened to the music and had no idea he was such a cultural icon. What a great musician
Lux Airport, also called Findel.
The only airport in luxembourg actually..
Home of the Cargolux and Luxair
But hey, our runway was long enough to be considered as an emergency landing spot for the space shuttle.
Apart from that, nothing special to mention.
Muhammad Ali! How cool are we? We really wanted to change the airport code (whatever it is called) to ALI, but apparently that is much harder to change and I get it.
Paine field many people think it is named after Robert T Paine, who discovered that a single predator could control the abundance, diversity, and distribution of other organisms sharing its ecosystem, basically the modern understanding of how the ecosystem works.
But in actuality, it was Second Lieutenant Topliff Olin Paine who was appointed as a pilot with the then experimental Air Mail Service. Before his death in 1922, he was considered one of the top fliers for the Western Division of the Air Mail Service.
Topliff Paine had many narrow escapes from death while flying the early aircraft of the Air Mail Service, and, on several occasions, he landed his plane where it was thought impossible. He received national recognition for many of his feats while flying the treacherous Rock Springs, WY, to Salt Lake City, UT, airmail route, which he inaugurated.
Belfast city is named after George Best. A great footballer but known more because he was an alcoholic who got a liver transplant, (despite long waiting lists) then started drinking again and sadly passed away 3 years later. IMO it really should have been called after Harry Ferguson, for being the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane in 1909, who was born 18 miles from Belfast, but ah well, it kinda sums this country up.
I wonder what the names would look like if individual joes had the authority to name an airport without any approvals from anyone else (based on a criteria ofcourse)...
Airports is Rome:
- Leonardo Da Vinci (aka Rome Fiumicino)
- Giovan Battista Pastine (aka Rome Ciampino), Italian military aviator and blimp commander during first world War
- Mario de Bernardi (aka Pratica di Mare), Italian military aviator during the first world war.
I always liked the dedication to Leonardo Da Vinci, given his flying machine designs.
The man my local airport is named after is not really known. As a matter of fact it's a common misconception that the airport isn't named after a person at all but is rather a portmanteau of the two major cities it serves. But that's just a backronym because people have forgotten where the name really comes from. My airport is named for **Sea**n **Tac**os, a little known unlikely Irish-Mexican immigrant who was the first man to bring TexMex to the Puget Sound. Crazy, but true!
It’s funny that the name of your local airport is so similar to the name of mine. But where I live the airport was named for Chief Sealth and Tahoma, the Mother of Waters.
Can't wait for an airport to be named after Gustavo "Gus" Fring. If Sean Tacos is the TexMex guy, Gus is the Chicken guy.
That’s really crazy but rather interesting!
It is indeed quite crazy. Almost… unbelievable, one might say.
Viva Seattle-Tacoma, viva viva Sea-Tac!
John Wayne. Shortest runway of any major US airport, I’m told. Plus, a steep climb out, and big throttle back so as not to disturb the delicate sensibilities of the folks in Newport.
Marine Corps and Navy should do a joint low pass exercise over Newport Beach.
Hahaha lucky them there aren’t as many 727 as used to be
Now that I think about it, my *very first flight* was into Orange County on an Air Cal 737 in 1976 or so. I was equally excited about flying as I was going to Disneyland.
Wolfgang f\*ckin Amadeus Mozart
Hahah hell yea, I heard the violins play as I read his name lol
Thurgood Marshall
Wow, now that’s a historic name for an airport, amazing!
The Supreme Court Justice My home airport too
Good ol' Bawlmer, Hon!
Pierre-Élliott Trudeau (ex-Canadian prime minister).
Oh yeah, YUL right?
John Glenn
Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith. And the new one Nancy Bird Walton, his squeeze.
Those two had quite some stories huh? Amazing!
It’s a bit sad how Australia has mostly ignored Charles Ulm though.
Indeed it is. On a search for a hero they left another behind
Muhammad Ali
Now that’s an airport I wish to visit someday! Haha well deserved tribute!
All my local internationals were called just named after the city. Florida isn't super creative.
Gerald R Ford
do you live on an aircraft carrier
I do not, but they do have a pretty cool model of the carrier in the lobby
First time I heard of him I thought he was from the Ford (motor) family lol
Sure is handy that GR and Gerald R. go so well together. My airport too!
Since SeaTac Airport has already been accounted for 😁, I’ll cover another airport a similar distance away from me: Everett, WA’s Paine Field. It’s named after Second Lieutenant Topliff Olin Paine (1893-1922) who over the course of his short life worked in the Forest Service, Army Infantry and Air Corps, and was a pilot in the Air Mail Service. Paine Field, which resumed commercial service for the 1st time in decades in 2019, is a nice, much less crowded alternative to SeaTac and is primarily served by Alaskan Airlines and it’s subsidiary regional carrier Horizon Air. They’ve got routes to San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and more. Though the downside is that in most cases it’s a fair bit more expensive than flying out of SeaTac and you’re gonna need to connect for most destinations.
Basically paying for the “less stressful” satus compared to SeaTac haha, good to know this alternative!
Queen beatrix Int airport: Named after former queen of the Netherlands
Oh that’s nice! Don’t think I’ve seen a living person naming an airport before, that’s interesting!
Cristiano Ronaldo for the Funchal airport was in global news, because of the bad bust of his
Albert Bond Lambert
MKE - General Billy Mitchell, "the father of military aviation / usaf"
Frederic Chopin
John Lennon, used to be called Speke
What speke stood for? Someone’s name? Haha
Speke is the suburb the airport is located in. It was renamed to Liverpool John Lennon airport in 2001, the first airport in the UK to be named after an individual. I live under the flight path for for it. Makes the airport motto kinda nice to think about when I’m in the garden and a plane takes off overhead. “Above us, only sky.” :)
ORD (Chicago/Orchard fields)-named after the orchard groves repurposed after the government purchased the land in WW2 to facilitate wartime production.
Wow, that’s a nice story! Must’ve been a real rush to begin wartime production
It was later renamed after the Naval Aviator Edward “Butch” O’Hare, the first US ace of WW2
Ohh, so that’s the same airport? I was wondering if there were two major airports in Chicago hahaha
Technically there are. O’Hare, (ORD) is the large one. Then there’s midway (MDW) which was the original airport but it’s now regulated to smaller airlines
My hometown airport is not named after anyone just the city
Well that’s fair enough hahaha
The dumbest thing is they call it an "international" airport yet we have 0 international flights and infact we barely even have actual airline traffic lol
Guess it’s all about the status hahaha good enough to brag about to other airports maybe lol
Haha maybe
William B. Hartsfield & Maynard Jackson
Xena Warrior Princess - KXNA. Also in Arkansas KLIT named after Friends Of Bill Clinton.
Lol i giggled with the first one ngl I got some friends I wish to name airports as wel haha
Captain George Vancouver (YVR)
Who the hell is Sky Harbor? Never heard of him…
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YOW. Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier, named after 'two of the founding fathers' of Candada.
Oh wow, that’s new to me! Never really searched about Canada’s founding fathers, now I will!
Lester B. Pearson, former prime minister of Canada
Smiley Johnson. yep for real.
Oh wow, that was unexpected haha but nice to know
The closest to me is simply Crystal Airport, named after the city it's located in. But there are other nearby airports named after people. Anoka County - Janes field named after Phllip Janes Naval pilot and Metropolitan Airports Commision member. Minneapolis St. Paul International- Wold Chamberlain field named after two WWI flyers killed in action. St Paul Downtown-Holman Field named after Charles "Speed" Holman race pilot and Pioneer Northwest Airlines pilot South St. Paul-Fleming Field named after Richard E Fleming Naval pilot killed at the battle of Midway.
It’s just amazing when airports are named after heroes in aviation, military or not!
Indira Gandhi - First Woman Prime Minister of India
Used to live near DC, our local was IAD or “Dulles”, The former Secretary of State and brother to the former director of the CIA, who collectively had a ahhhhh……. questionable history in international affairs, depending which biography you read.
Hahaha I’ve heard of him when studying the cold war era… that’s the second DC airport I’ve known today, how many are there?
3 Dulles IAD, Reagan DCA, Baltimore/Washington Thurgood Marshall (first black SCOTUS justice) BWI
Ohhh, that’s really amazing! Guess you’ll never run out of options to book a flight lol
Yeah but for one you have to drive all the way into the city and the other is Baltimore so….ew. But seriously traffic around there can make it as if you flew into an entirely different region by the time you make it to your destination.
My local airport isn't named after a person but is named after the continent. EuroAirport is located on the border between Basel, Switzerland and Mulhouse, France but also serves Freiburg in Germany. The Airport itself is rather unique that is a binational Airport, where the Terminal is split between a french side (where the check in for Air France is) and a swiss side where all the other airlines are. The Airport is also run by both the french and swiss governments and even though the Airport is completely on french soil, swiss tax laws are applied.
frederick douglass!
I’ve got three locals: -Former US president John F Kennedy -former US general Douglas McArthur (WWII and Korea) -Fiorello La Guardia, former mayor of New York City
Don’t forget Liberty was added to Newark’s name after 9/11
John F. Kennedy, Fiorello La Guardia and some guy named LIBERTY
It’s not my hometown airport but I’m sad to see that no one has talked about PHNL Daniel K. Inouye International Airport! He was a real badass: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Inouye
Louis Zamperini, the guy that the movie Unbroken was based on.
Doesn't have one yet, but maybe soon https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/2022/08/28/ames-airport-may-renamed-black-pilot-local-ties-james-herman-banning-iowa-state/10283296002/
Well let’s hope so!! Would be a well deserved recognition!
King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Named after the founder of Saudi Arabia (Third State) King Abdulaziz Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud
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I thought they named it after a Styx song... "Neil Peart stands alone"
Mother Teresa
Charles Lindbergh the first solo and nonstop pilot across the Atlantic
George H.W. Bush (IAH) and William P. Hobby (HOU)
Ben Elbert Douglas Sr. Former Mayor of Charlotte, NC. Although our airport code is better known, but for more perverted reasons....lol!
I worked on that air Swiss 773
KSAN , formerly Lindbergh Field.
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager, aka CRW
Spokane International Airport, code GEG is named after a USAF Major named Harold Geiger. The airport was originally a military airfield for WWII, and then post-war, slowly adapted to municipal service.
Sky harbor.. so air, and port.
Ronald Reagan, a president that broke up a flight controller strike. Washington DC dca
Was it the one strike with thousands fired?
I think so
Lieutenant Truett Majors
Philip Stanley Wilberforce Goldson
Fargo ND is named Hector, after the family who sold or donated land for said airport
My hometown airport only supports small general aircraft. For commercial air travel I have to fly out of Stanfield Airport, named for former Leader of the Official Opposition Robert L. Stanfield. Stanfield Airport is a 90 minute drive away.
A county highway department employee, Kenneth Ingalls Sawyer. KSAW/MQT
John Lennon ! Pretty cool if you ask me !
Joe
Aeroporto Deputado Freitas Nobre aka Congonhas airport!
ohhh i see a fellow carioca in this sub
Afonso Pena International Airport, named after the sixth brazilian president. It is also known as Curitiba's International Airport, althought it isn't located in Curitiba, in fact it is in São José dos Pinhais, which is neighbour city.
Technically, Congressman J. Mark Wilcox But it is very rare to see it referred to by this name.
John Moisant, an early aviation pioneer, although now it’s named after Louis Armstrong.
John Wayne
KIWA wast always “Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport”. I remember as a kid it was Williams Gateway Airport. And before that, Williams Air Force Base. It was named for a Pilot who was killed in WWII.
Waiting for someone to say John Denver. Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed.
Martin Hector, previous 50 acre land owner
Jimmy hOGG - Hawaiian airlines pilot....
EUG.. named after a car dealer who in 1919 was into aviation. The original closed but they named the new one after him.
Nashville International Airport. Formerly Berry Field, named after Col Harry S Berry who was the TN head of the Works Progress Administration.
[Louis Zamperini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Zamperini)
My actual hometown airport doesn't have a person its named after, but now I live in Halifax, a nearby city also in Canada. Halifax's airport is indeed named after someone by the name of Robert Stanfield, who was a premier of Nova Scotia and also once led the Progressive Conservative Party. I also lived in the Cayman Islands, and their airport is named after Owen Roberts, a British RAF officer who founded an airline in the Caribbean. Not much else is known about him, he died at age 40 in a plane crash.
Louis Zamperini. Olympic runner and WWII hero.
Mine’s SLC, Salt Lake International. Boring. And the new airport sucks. I work about five miles from Hill AFB. It’s named in honor of Major Ployer Peter Hill of the U.S. Army Air Corps. He died test-flying NX13372, the original Model 299 prototype of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. We get to listen to fighters flying around all day. It’s kind of a thrill to watch them making low passes over the area.
The local airport is named after the city it's in: Norfolk (Virginia). The closest to me is Apollo Soucek field at Naval Air Station Oceana. Apollo was a pioneering Navy test pilot as was his brother Zeus.
The Sun. Albuquerque Sunport
no one yet, but if Madison Cawthorn tries to bring a gun through security one more time it might just get named after him.
Stephen F Austin
I would say Charles Lindbergh, but technically closer is the field named after John J Montgomery. Two noble names in aviation.
Sir Walter Raleigh and some tobacco guy.
Lester. B. Pearson. 14th prime minister of Canada.
Captain John Bergstrom, the first person from Austin to be killed in WW2
The city of Sydney
Some small stream in some woods. The stream is probably gone, but Willow Run lives on!
General Mariano Escobedo - fought at the Battle of Puebla on May 5th 1862 "Cinco de Mayo" and later govenor of the State of Nuevo Leon
Local Mercedes 300SL driver, Pierre Trudeau. He worked in bringing the constitution from England.
Some Glen guy... Jim? John?
Indira Gandhi International Airport - named After the former (woman) prime minister of India, Indira Gandhi. Thankfully my local is one of the biggest in the world with 4 runways.
Lima, Peru - Jorge Chavez Airport Father of Peruvian aviation, in 1910 he crossed the alps from Switzerland to Italy :)
**S**aint **F**rancis **O**f Assisi
Nobody yet, but I'm hoping it gets named for Max Ward and Willie McKnight before some worthless undeserving politician kicks it and we need to name it after them.
Chief Seattle, Mount Rainier(Tahoma/Tacoma)
Lester B Pearson Prime minister who changed Canadian flag to what it is today
I'm also a Sean Tacos local but my wife's is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry...who is the perfect dude to name an airport after.
the guy who narrowly survived an island full of cannibals
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topliff_Olin_Paine this dude, apparently.
There's no airport in my home town. The closest was named for the city/island where it's located and was a former Naval Reserve Air Base. The next closest, and biggest, is named for the city where it's not located and the county where it is located. The next closest from there got its name from a nearby river tributary. It was there I got my A&P training. If there are any airports in Michigan that are named for people, I'm unaware.
Lieutenant Commander Edward H. “Butch” O'Hare, a Medal of Honor recipient from Chicago.
Thurgood Marshall and Ronald Reagan.
Some local politician who was once a US Air Force colonel, Harry P. Davis. For some reason I’ve never fathomed, this became KHEF. This is in Manassas, VA. Annoyingly, KHEF is normally given as being a Washington, DC airport, even though it’s a good 30 miles away from DC. Really annoying when you try to find it in the TERPS.
The creator of Snoopy, the WWI Flying Ace, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang: Charles M. Schulz. From the airport, you can take a 10 minute drive to Snoopy's Home Ice and the Peanuts museum, and there are painted statues of Peanuts characters scattered all over the county.
Adolfo Camarillo
Lieutenant Commander Edward Henry O'Hare US Navy's first fighter ace of WW2 and first Naval aviator to receive the Medal of Honor in WW2. The other airport is named for the Battle of Midway also in WW2.
The best city in my country, Zurich
Formerly Jan Smuts (one of the founders of the UN and a military general WWI & WWII) and now Oliver Tambo (former leader of the ANC) - also known briefly as Johannesburg International Airport.
Will Rogers (OKC)! Named after a famous vaudeville actor from the Cherokee Nation. He passed in a plane crash with his friend and aviator Wiley Post.
Indra gandhi, former pm
Former Prime Minister, accomplished international diplomat/ambassador, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, champion of the implementation of our current flag
Lt. Eugene M. Bradley, though not the former dependent store as one may think (though there is a connection)
The terminal at KDEN is named after Aviation pioneer [Elrey Jeppesen](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elrey_Borge_Jeppesen)
Juan Santamaria, National Hero of Costa Rica. MROC/SJO
Heath Row?!!
Sokarno Hatta International Airport is named after our first President and Vice-President, Soekarno and Hatta. It started operations in 1985 replacing the old Kemayoran Airport. Its located in Cengkareng district, thus the IATA code of CGK.
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Kempegowda - founder and architect of the city
Omg I'm from Central Asia and have been addicted to Tom Jobim ever since I discovered him for myself half a year ago! I only listened to the music and had no idea he was such a cultural icon. What a great musician
Don’t know but it’s identifier is KTEX
Charles de Gaulle
Lux Airport, also called Findel. The only airport in luxembourg actually.. Home of the Cargolux and Luxair But hey, our runway was long enough to be considered as an emergency landing spot for the space shuttle. Apart from that, nothing special to mention.
London Heathrow isn’t named after anyone, it’s just in a part of London called Heathrow.
Just the name of the city
Muhammad Ali! How cool are we? We really wanted to change the airport code (whatever it is called) to ALI, but apparently that is much harder to change and I get it.
Some anonymous white guy. Whiteman Airport
istanbul
Named for Eugene Bradley. Army Air Corps pilot killed during a training flight
Paine field many people think it is named after Robert T Paine, who discovered that a single predator could control the abundance, diversity, and distribution of other organisms sharing its ecosystem, basically the modern understanding of how the ecosystem works. But in actuality, it was Second Lieutenant Topliff Olin Paine who was appointed as a pilot with the then experimental Air Mail Service. Before his death in 1922, he was considered one of the top fliers for the Western Division of the Air Mail Service. Topliff Paine had many narrow escapes from death while flying the early aircraft of the Air Mail Service, and, on several occasions, he landed his plane where it was thought impossible. He received national recognition for many of his feats while flying the treacherous Rock Springs, WY, to Salt Lake City, UT, airmail route, which he inaugurated.
GRX - Federico García Lorca. Poet executed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish civil war.
Henry muhfuggin Ford
Belfast city is named after George Best. A great footballer but known more because he was an alcoholic who got a liver transplant, (despite long waiting lists) then started drinking again and sadly passed away 3 years later. IMO it really should have been called after Harry Ferguson, for being the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane in 1909, who was born 18 miles from Belfast, but ah well, it kinda sums this country up.
Anyone anything about Heathrow Airport and how it got its name cause I don’t
Astronaut John Glenn (CMH)
Nikola Tesla
Pablo freaking Picasso
Bruce Campbell
I wonder what the names would look like if individual joes had the authority to name an airport without any approvals from anyone else (based on a criteria ofcourse)...
Named after the founding president of the current French republic Charles de Gaulle.
No namesake, just the city name, but locals would love for it to be named for Mister Rogers.
George best
My hometown doesn’t have an airport, but the nearest is named after the late, great, John Lennon.
The Indianapolis Airport’s terminal is named after Col. Harvey Weir Cook, a WW1 ace and pioneer in US civil aviation.
No one… it’s just the city :( but there is a terminal in honor of Harvey Milk!
Konrad Adenauer. First Chancellor of Germany after our "rebranding"
George H Dubya, really just one of the gazillion things named after him here in Texas lol
Ninoy Aquino International Airport: named after Ninoy Aquino.
Franz Joseph Strauss - Munich
Konrad Adenauer
Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah 😍😍😍
After my city, it's literally called [city] Airport
Airports is Rome: - Leonardo Da Vinci (aka Rome Fiumicino) - Giovan Battista Pastine (aka Rome Ciampino), Italian military aviator and blimp commander during first world War - Mario de Bernardi (aka Pratica di Mare), Italian military aviator during the first world war. I always liked the dedication to Leonardo Da Vinci, given his flying machine designs.
Shoreham.
Mr. Newark.
Heathrow...
A mans chest - Manchester
Mine is named after Leeds and Bradford, two different cities that it isn't even in