Guidelines
Please follow these guidelines for creating your airport!
Airport Information Box
Required (but some subcategories are optional)
Add an airport information box to display a quick summary of your model airport. Put this at the beginning of your article, before any other text. You can copy the following example and copy the other required parts in the ... area. For name
, write the airport's name in English.
{{Infobox airport | name = Airport name ... }}
Native airport name
Optional
If your airport's original language is not English, you can add its native name using the nativename
attribute. Copy this into your infobox code after the name
attribute:
| nativename = Native airport name
Image
Optional
If you wish to include an image of your airport, use image
. You must upload an image at Special:Upload first.
| image = Image-file.png | image-width = 150
If you include an image, you must specify the image width. If you want to include a second image, use image2
| image2 =Image-file-2.jpg | image2-width = 250
Airport codes
Required
Include the IATA and ICAO codes using IATA
and ICAO
| IATA = Three-letter IATA code | ICAO = Four-letter ICAO code
The other codes are optional but recommended for airports in the US (FAA) and Canada (TC).
| FAA = FAA LID (USA) | TC = TC LID (Canada) | GPS = GPS code | WMO = World Meteorological Association code
Airport type
Optional
An airport is public or private (or military or another usable category). Recommended.
| type = Public/Private/etc.
Airport creator
Required
Include the createdby
and w9thread
attributes in your airport infobox. For example:
| createdby = Wings900 username | w9thread = http://www.wings900.com/vb/model-airports/my-airport-thread.html
Owner and operator
Optional
If the owner and operator of the airport are the same, use owner-oper
. Recommended.
| owner-oper = The owner-operator of the airport
If the owner and operator are different, use owner
and operator
.
| owner = Airport owner | operator = Airport operator
City served and Location
Required
Include the city/cities served by the airport and the actual location of the airport. use city-served
and location
| city-served = Area served | location = Airport location
Elevation
Required
Include the elevation of your airport above sea level. You must convert between feet and meters yourself and include both due to a glitch in the infobox.
| elevation-f = Elevation in feet | elevation-m = Elevation in meters
Runway length(s)
Required
List the runway(s) at the airport. Again, you must convert between feet and meters yourself due to a glitch.
| r1-number = The two numbers of a runway (e.g. 1/19, 15L/33R) | r1-length-f = Runway length in feet | r1-length-m = Runway length in meters | r1-surface = Runway surface (concrete, asphalt, etc.)
To add more runways, simply change the r1
to r2
| r2-number = The two numbers of a runway (e.g. 1/19, 15L/33R) | r2-length-f = Runway length in feet | r2-length-m = Runway length in meters | r2-surface = Runway surface (concrete, asphalt, etc.)
Statistics
Optional
List the statistics for your airport in a given year, usually the aircraft operations and passenger movements. You can only use stat1
and only do one statistic if you want to.
| stat-year = Year of your statistics | stat1-header = Which statistic is listed (e.g. Aircraft operations) | stat1-data = Number of this statistic (however many aircraft operations there were) | stat2-header = Title 2 (e.g. Passenger movement) | stat2-data = Number of this statistics (however many passengers used the airport)
Airport introduction
After the infobox, start the article with a quick summary of your airport.
Begin the article with the airport's name (in English) in bold, written with three apostrophes around the name '''like this'''
. Then list the airport codes using {{Airport codes|IATA code|ICAO code}}
. You can also add the FAA LID with a third section (like this: {{Airport codes|IATA|ICAO|FAA LID}}
). Optionally, include, in parenthesis, the airport's name in the native language and italicize the native name. Then complete the sentence as a quick overview of the airport. For example:
Big City Airport (IATA: BCA, ICAO: BCAP) (English: Big City Airport) is a civil airport location 12 miles west of Big City.
After that, continue with a few more sentences of basic information about your airport
History
Airlines and Destinations table
Categories
Required
Include one of the following categories at the end of your article:
[[Category:Airports in Africa]] [[Category:Airports in Asia]] [[Category:Airports in Central America]] [[Category:Airports in Europe]] [[Category:Airports in North America]] [[Category:Airports in Oceania]] [[Category:Airports in South America]] [[Category:Airports in the Caribbean]]
This allows it to be categorized in these lists and in the overall airport list. Do not include [[Category:Airports]]
in your article.