---
id: "airport"
kind: "datatype"
status: "stable"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "transport"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 45
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/airport"
---

# Airport location identifier (`airport`)

A location identifier is a symbolic representation for the name and the location of an airport, navigation aid, or weather station, and is used for staffed air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Transportation (transport)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier
- Patterns: `faalid`, `iataairportcode`, `icaoairportcode`

## Supported by tools

- `tableau`

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_identifier>

## Quality

Score 45/100. Missing: regexp, examples, negative example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/airport.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/transport/air/airport.yaml>