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Zonkor
 
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Question Origin of airport country prefixes
I'm wondering who an me when these were defined by what rules:

K: US (why "K"?)
EG: UK ("G"reat Britain?)
ED: Germany ("D"eutschland?)
LF: France
LS: Switzerland

BTW, why do UK/Germany start with "E", but France/Switzerland with "L"?

A related question is about country prefixes in airplane identifiers. Were these defined by ICAO?

Thanks,

Michael
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