| Audubon County Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Audubon County Airport Authority | ||||||||||
| Location | Audubon, Iowa | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,287 ft / 392 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°42′05″N094°55′14″W / 41.70139°N 94.92056°W | ||||||||||
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  ADU Location of airport in Iowa/United States  ADU ADU (the US) | |||||||||||
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Source: Federal Aviation Administration [1] | |||||||||||
Audubon County Airport( ICAO : KADU, FAA LID : ADU), formerly Audubon Municipal Airport, is a public airport located one mile (2 km) southeast of the central business district of Audubon, a city in Audubon County, Iowa, United States. It is owned by the Audubon County Airport Authority. [1]
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States is a national authority with powers to regulate all aspects of civil aviation. These include the construction and operation of airports, air traffic management, the certification of personnel and aircraft, and the protection of U.S. assets during the launch or re-entry of commercial space vehicles.
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 manned air traffic control facilities in air traffic control, telecommunications, computer programming, weather reports, and related services.
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Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Audubon County Airport is assigned ADU by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned ADU to Ardabil Airport in Ardabil, Iran). [2] [3]
The International Air Transport Association is a trade association of the world’s airlines. Consisting of 290 airlines, primarily major carriers, representing 117 countries, the IATA's member airlines account for carrying approximately 82% of total available seat miles air traffic. IATA supports airline activity and helps formulate industry policy and standards. It is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with Executive Offices in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ardabil Airport is an airport north-east of Ardabil, in north-western Iran.
Iran, also called Persia and officially known as the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a country in Western Asia. With over 81 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 18th most populous country. Comprising a land area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), it is the second largest country in the Middle East and the 17th largest in the world. Iran is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. The country's central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, give it geostrategic importance. Tehran is the country's capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center.
