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Global Airport Codes
100

This Seattle-based airline began in 1932 as McGee Airways.
 

Alaska Airlines

100

The busiest airport in Washington state that handles over 50 million passengers annually

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport / SEA 

100


Cessna 172

100

Like the F/A-18 in Top Gun: Maverick, this aircraft was featured the most in the original Top Gun

F-14 Tomcat

100

DXB
 

Dubai International Airport

200

This Washington lake has hosted seaplane operations for over a century and remains one of the busiest seaplane bases in the country.

Lake Union

200

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Bowers Field / ELN

200

Aircraft most commonly used for flight training here at the CWU aviation program 

Piper Archer 

200

This Disney film involving a crop-duster who competes in an international air race.
 

Planes

200

LHR
 

London Heathrow Airport

300

This Washington mountain famously disrupted air travel after erupting in 1980.

Mount St. Helens

300

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Everett Paine Field / PAE

300

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels Demonstration team fly a fleet of this aircraft 

F/A-18 Super Hornet

300

Tom Hanks starred as a pilot forced to land an Airbus A320 on the Hudson River in this 2016 film.

Sully

300

FRA
 

Frankfurt Airport, Germany 

400

This Washington base became a major hub for strategic bombers during the Cold War and is still in operation today.
 

Fairchild Air Force Base

400

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Moses lake / MWH

400

Boeing’s Everett factory was built largely to mass produce this widebody aircraft from 1967 to 2023.
 

Boeing 747

400

Leonardo DiCaprio played aviation pioneer Howard Hughes in this 2004 biopic.
 

The Aviator

400

OGG
 

Kahului Airport, Maui, Hawaii

500

After WWI, Boeing briefly survived by manufacturing this non-aviation product.
 

Furniture

500

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Pasco / Tri-Cities / PSC

500

This Boeing aircraft, first delivered in 1958, helped make Seattle known as the birthplace of the jet age.

Boeing 707

500

1983 movie about the early U.S. space program and legendary test pilots.
 

The Right Stuff

500

HKG
 

Hong Kong International Airport

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