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Random Griz Aviation Musings

This is probably googleable, but I'll ask here... What's the history of using the letter "i" for Ohio airports? Does the letter "o" look too much like a zero?
 
Gatordev said:
This is probably googleable, but I'll ask here... What's the history of using the letter "i" for Ohio airports? Does the letter "o" look too much like a zero?
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I think it's a scheme that was originally developed by FAA Great Lakes Region. For whatever reason they decided non-towered airports in the Ohio valley are going to begin with the letter I. I think it was just arbitrary. My home airport is I68, Warren County.
 
ChuckMK23 said:
I think it's a scheme that was originally developed by FAA Great Lakes Region. For whatever reason they decided non-towered airports in the Ohio valley are going to begin with the letter I. I think it was just arbitrary. My home airport is I68, Warren County.
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I think it's more than arbitrary. There must be some master list that someone came up with, presumably after WWII and all the OLFs were divested. Montana uses U and S, Texas uses T (of course it does) and R, and Florida uses FA (Florida aerodrome, presumably) and FL.
 
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