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Old 12-26-2023, 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by kkingston57 View Post
Noted you referred this airport as OIA which would be great. Real call letters are MCO. Wish they would change. Makes too much sense.
Orlando International Airport was originally a military base dating as far back as the 1940s when it was Pinecastle Army Airfield. In 1958 it was renamed McCoy Air Force Base after Colonel Michael McCoy, who was killed during a bombing competition.
The airport was designated MCO after the base name, and even though the military base closed in 1975, those letters haven’t changed. The airport became Orlando International in 1976.

BTW, O'Hare Airport, ORD, used to be Orchard Field, and actually had been an orchard.