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VOR Quizzes


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This VORTAC is located in the United States.  It's named after the nearby city.  The identifier is the same as the city's airport, but it is located 5.8 miles away.
That city is a stop on the Amtrak system, and was named after the wife of a railroad baron.
The airport hasn't had airline service for 72 years.  The nearest airline-served airport is 73 nautical miles away.
"Florida" is nearby.
photo by Jane Weaver (coincidentally, Gail Brooks sent a video of it the same week!)

may 2025


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c
orrect answers from:

David Birkley
Bill Sablesak
Yale Oseroff 
John Barry
Ed Pataky - PSA Airlines
Alex Johnson- Southwest Airlines
Tevin Em - Endeavor Air
Alan Zhou - Endeavor Air
Tom Waters - United Airlines


This month's navaid is located at an airport serving the capital of an archipelagic nation. 
It has the same identifier as that airport.
The airport has one asphalt runway and a very busy waterdrome.
The capital city is one of the most densely populated in the world.


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Correct Answers:

Alan Zhou - Endeavor Air
James Hanson
Tevin Em and Kade Merrell - Endeavor Air
Bill Sablesak
John Barry
Yale Oseroff - Allegiant Air
Richard L. Fellie - Air Transport International
David Sigel - UPS
Ed McCoy - United Airlines
Alex Johnson - Southwest Airlines
Bryce J. Harden - Kalitta Air
Ryan Noon - Southwest Airlines

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The answer is Male (MLE) Maldives

photo by Derek Hellmann


This low altitude VORTAC is located in the United States. 
It's named after the nearby city, and is 15.5 nautical miles away
from its airline-served airport. 
Its designator is what you would think that airport's IATA code would be,
but that code relates to the borough where it is located.
Actually, the city's previous airline-served airport, closer to the city,
still carries that IATA code.
Airline service left there in the late 1960s.


photo by Mike Vane


Feb 2025


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correct answers received from:

Yale Oseroff and Joe Sabal/Endeavor Air
James Hanson
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
John Barry
Bryce Harden - Kalitta Air
Alan Zhou - Endeavor Air

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The answer is Harrisburg (HAR), Pennsylvania








This month's navaid is a high altitude VORTAC, located at a large U.S. airport. 
This airport was conceived at the dawn of the Jet Era.
It does not, however, have the same name as the airport. 
It's named after an adjacent town, which is named for a man, but it's not proud.
photo by Marvin Hood


March 25

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correct answers (page down for the answer):

Bryce J. Harden - Kalitta Air
Alan Zhou - Endeavor Air
James Hanson
Bill Sablesak
Alex Johnson - Southwest Airlines
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Richard L. Fellie - Air Transport International
Michael Vane
Tom Norwood
Tevin Em - Endeavor Air
Yale Oseroff - Allegiant Air
John Barry



















































The answer is Humble (IAH), at Houston Intercontinental Airport

This Navaid is in the United States of America, at a General Aviation airport, 
a reliever for the city's larger, airline-served airport.
It has the same identifier as the airport.
The name of the airport could be a man's first name, or a last name. 
It's named after a military officer who was killed at Pearl Harbor.
It's a former military airfield, turned over to the city after World War Two.
The VORTAC used to be on a Jet Route, but now a Q route passes just east of the airfield.


Jan 2025

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correct answers from:

Yale Oseroff/Kade Merrel - Endeavor Air
John Barry
Jim Hanson
Bryce J. Harden - Kalitta Air
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Tom Waters - United Airlines
Richard Fellie - Air Transport International
Rebekah Perez

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The answer is Craig (CRG) VORTAC, Jacksonville, Florida