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Where can you find the ICAO airport reference code listings for various airports?
Try this one
http://www.nodomainname.co.uk/files/airports.pdf
Iron Eagle
7th May 2012, 10:18
or this try this link The Aviation Codes Web Site - IATA / ICAO Airport Designator / Code Database Search (http://www.avcodes.co.uk/aptcodesearch.asp)
By "ICAO airport reference code", I meant the code that designates what size the airport is in terms of runways/taxiways/etc. For instance the B777 is 4E, but where do you find out which aerodromes can facilitate an aircraft of category 4E.
Sir George Cayley
7th May 2012, 16:35
CAP168 Aerodrome Licensing Chapter 3 Physical Characteristics.
There's a table (3.1)which will help you. 4E is actually a runway length figure and an a/c wingspan / gear width letter.
You're right that a Treb is a Code E a/c as is the 747, A340 and MD-11. The A380 is a code F.
A code 4 runway is longer than 1800m.
I've searched the UK AIP and found it easy to work out the runway code but how anyone works out whether a particular code a/c can be operated into an airport with a variety of different taxiways, I don't know.
SGC