{"id":7825,"date":"2024-04-05T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2024-04-05T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T15:40:06","slug":"airport-code-and-aircraft-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/airport-code-and-aircraft-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport code and Aircraft Registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between<strong> ICAO airport code<\/strong> and<strong> IATA airport code?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, Hong Kong<\/p>\n<p>IATA: HKG<\/p>\n<p>ICAO: VHHH<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ans ref: POE<\/p>\n<p>ICAO codes are used for aviation-related operational and safety purposes, while IATA codes are mainly used for commercial and airline-related activities.<\/p>\n<p>ICAO codes are <strong>four-letter<\/strong> alphanumeric codes;<\/p>\n<p>IATA codes are <strong>three-letter<\/strong> alphanumeric codes<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For ICAO code, the first or first two letter is the so-called prefix:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VH Hong Kong<\/li>\n<li>RC Republic of China (Taiwan)<\/li>\n<li>Z Mainland China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For the aircraft, the first or first-two alphanumeric letter of\u00a0 registration number is the so-called prefix:<\/p>\n<p>China B-<\/p>\n<p>UK G-<\/p>\n<p>US N-<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes when you hear someone say N-registration, this is perhaps what they are talking about.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the difference between ICAO airport code and IATA airport code? For example, Hong Kong IATA: HKG ICAO: VHHH &nbsp; Ans ref: POE ICAO codes are used for aviation-related operational and safety purposes, while IATA codes are mainly used for commercial and airline-related activities. ICAO codes are four-letter alphanumeric codes; IATA codes are three-letter<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/airport-code-and-aircraft-registration\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}