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48-895: Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA , but this airport is BPG to the FAA and HCA to the IATA (which assigned BPG to Barra do Garças Airport in Barra do Garças , Mato Grosso , Brazil ). Big Spring Army Air Field opened on 28 April 1942 as part of the United States Army Air Forces Central Flying Training Command; it was to train aviation cadets in high altitude precision bombing. The airfield received its first class of cadets in September 1942. The AT-11 ( Beechcraft Model 18 ) and

96-479: A four-character identifier, such as 1CA9 for Los Angeles County Fire Department Heliport. The location identifiers are coordinated with the Transport Canada Identifiers described below. In general, the FAA has authority to assign all three-letter identifiers (except those beginning with the letters K, N, W, and Y), all three- and four-character alphanumeric identifiers, and five-letter identifiers for

144-514: A result of the need for trained pilots for the Korean War, the airfield reopened on October 1, 1951. The base was renamed Webb Air Force Base in 1952 for Lieutenant James L. Webb, a Big Spring native and World War II combat pilot, who was killed off the Japanese coast in 1949. The 3560th Pilot Training Wing (later redesignated the 78th Flying Training Wing) was stationed at the base, and instruction of

192-491: A route between Denver, Albuquerque, and San Antonio. Continental also flew DC-3's but ended service in 1951. Pioneer Air Lines began service in 1947 using the Municipal Airport (now McMahon-Wrinkle) as one of several stops on flights between Midland/Odessa and Dallas. The airline used Douglas DC-3 aircraft. Pioneer merged into Continental Airlines in 1955 marking a return for Continental. Continental moved its flights to

240-637: A staffed air traffic control facility or navigational aid within airport boundary; to airports that receive scheduled route air carrier or military airlift service, and to airports designated by the United States Customs Service as airports of entry . Some of these identifiers are assigned to certain aviation weather reporting stations. Most one-digit, two-letter identifiers have been assigned to aviation weather reporting and observation stations and special-use locations. Some of these identifiers may be assigned to public-use landing facilities within

288-654: Is 4,601 x 75 ft (1,402 x 23 m). The airport lacks an active control tower ; air traffic coordination is limited to UNICOM advisories only. The former Webb AFB control tower still stands, but it has not been operational since the Air Force's departure in late 1977 and the airfield's conversion to a civil airport. In the year ending May 22, 2021, the airport had 23,520 aircraft operations, average 64 per day: 95% general aviation and 5% military. 39 aircraft were then based at this airport: 30 single-engine, 4 multi-engine, 3 jet, 6% ultralight and 2 helicopter . Three units of

336-519: Is a city in Lea County, New Mexico , United States. Its population was 40,508 at the 2020 census , increasing from 34,122 in 2010. Hobbs is the principal city of the Hobbs, New Mexico micropolitan statistical area , which includes all of Lea County. Hobbs was founded in 1907 when James Isaac Hobbs established a homestead and named the settlement. In 1910, the Hobbs post office opened, with James Hobbs as

384-644: 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. The International Civil Aviation Organization establishes sets of four-letter location indicators which are published in ICAO Publication 7910 . These are used by air traffic control agencies to identify airports and by weather agencies to produce METAR weather reports. The first letter indicates

432-572: Is a three- to five-character alphanumeric code identifying aviation-related facilities inside the United States, though some codes are reserved for, and are managed by other entities. For nearly all major airports, the assigned identifiers are alphabetic three-letter codes, such as ORD for Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Minor airfields are typically assigned a mix of alphanumeric characters, such as 8N2 for Skydive Chicago Airport and 0B5 for Turners Falls Airport . Private airfields are assigned

480-532: Is listed with the national civilian code УХММ, the national military code ЬХММ, and the "international" UHMM. The World Meteorological Organization used a system of five-digit numeric station codes to represent synoptic weather stations. An example is 72295 for Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). A modernization of WMO station identifiers was performed as part of the WMO Integrated Global Observing System (WIGOS). A presentation at

528-540: Is no specific organization scheme to IATA identifiers; typically they take on the abbreviation of the airport or city such as MNL for Manila Ninoy Aquino Airport. In the United States, the IATA identifier usually equals the FAA identifier, but this is not always the case. A prominent example is Sawyer International Airport in Marquette, Michigan , which uses the FAA identifier SAW and the IATA identifier MQT. The Federal Aviation Administration location identifier (FAA LID)

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576-560: Is the Master Station Catalog or MASLIB code. This is a 6-digit numeric code that is essentially the same scheme as the WMO station identifier but adds an extra digit, allowing many more stations to be indexed. This extra digit is always "0" when referencing an actual WMO station using the five-digit identifier, but may be 1..9 to reference other stations that exist in the vicinity. The MASLIB identifiers are not generally recognized outside

624-531: The B-18 Bolo were the primary aircraft flown for training. The 79th Bombardier Training Group continued operations until the surrender of Japan, when the cadets who agreed to remain in postwar service were transferred to Midland AAF , Texas. The last class graduated on 26 September 1945. The base was declared surplus and reverted to city control in November 1945, and it was Big Spring Municipal Airport for six years. As

672-547: The Colorado River watershed. Hobbs, like many parts of eastern New Mexico, has a semiarid climate ( Köppen climate classification BSk ). The city experiences hot summers and chilly winters. With around 70% of precipitation coming in the high solar half of the year, Hobbs may also be defined as a dry-winter humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cwa ). As of the 2020 United States Census , 40,508 people, 12,028 households, and 8,572 families resided in

720-518: The USFS RAWS system, and by the stream gauges operated by the USGS , both of which report through GOES weather satellites operated by NOAA . These use three letters which are a mnemonic for the location, followed by the first letter of the U.S. state , followed by a numeral indicating the alphabetical order within that letter (for example, North Carolina stations end with N7). The mnemonic may be

768-684: The United States and its jurisdictions. The Department of the Navy assigns three-letter identifiers beginning with the letter N for the exclusive use of that department. Transport Canada assigns three-character identifiers beginning with Y. The block beginning with letter Q is under international telecommunications jurisdiction, but is used internally by FAA Technical Operations to identify National Airspace equipment not covered by any other identifying code system. The block beginning with Z identifies United States Air Route Traffic Control Centers . In practice,

816-468: The American military services, assigns special use ICAO identifiers beginning with "KQ", for use by deployed units supporting real-world contingencies; deployed/in- garrison units providing support during exercises; classified operating locations; and units that have requested, but not yet received a permanent location identifier. One system still used by both the Air Force and National Climatic Data Center

864-525: The Big Spring Correctional Center (a federal prison privately operated by Cornell Companies ) are located on the base grounds (as well as FCI Big Spring, a separate facility operated directly by the Bureau of Prisons ). [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency Location identifier A location identifier

912-685: The FAA Identifier system described above, though a few conflicts exist. The Federal Civil Aviation Agency of Mexico ( Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil , AFAC) is a designator of airfield codes, each consisting of three letters, used to identify each civil airfield in Mexico. (These characters are chosen with the same methodology as for IATA codes, i.e. taking three letters of the airfield name, for example ZPU for Zacapu Airstrip.) These airfields can be airports, private airstrips, land heliports, boat heliports, and platform helipads. For more substantial airports

960-576: The IATA codes, they changed when renaming some cities of the former USSR in the 1990s, e.g. Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), which was ЛЕД and became СПТ . As of 2009, about 3,000 code combinations of internal code are in use. Many smaller aerodromes in Russia do not have an ICAO code. Instead, they are assigned an entry in the State and Experimental Aviation Point Location Index , or perhaps two: one civilian, normally beginning with Cyrillic "У" (=Latin "U"),

1008-542: The IATA designators are used, for example TLC for Toluca International Airport, although there are some exceptions, such IATA XAL and AFAC ALA for Alamos National Airport, Sonora. Within Russia (and before 1991 within the Soviet Union), there are airport identifiers (внутренний код - internal code) having three Cyrillic letters. They are used for e.g. ticket sales. Some small airports with scheduled flights have no IATA code, only this code and perhaps an ICAO code. Unlike

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1056-605: The Lea county seat , and south 61 mi (98 km) to Kermit, Texas . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city of Hobbs has a total area of 26.4 square miles (68.5 km ), of which 0.04 square miles (0.1 km ), or 0.14%, is covered by water. Land in the city drains either east to Seminole Draw or southeast to Monument Draw , both of which are tributaries of Mustang Draw in Texas and ultimately part of

1104-413: The United States and its jurisdictions, which do not meet the requirements for identifiers in the three-letter series. In this identifier series, the digit is always in the first position of the three-character combination. Most one-letter, two-digit identifiers are assigned to public-use landing facilities within the United States and its jurisdictions, which do not meet the requirements for identifiers in

1152-520: The United States. There have been rare instances where identifiers have been transplanted to new locations, mainly due to the closure of the original airport. Prominent examples are DEN/KDEN, which migrated from Stapleton International Airport to Denver International Airport in 1996, and AUS/KAUS, which migrated from Austin Mueller Municipal Airport to Austin–Bergstrom International Airport in 1999. Both of these cases occurred because

1200-506: The WMO site explains: The National Weather Service uses several schemes for identifying stations. It typically relies on the ICAO and WMO identifiers, although several weather forecast offices (WFOs) and weather radar sites that have moved away from airports have been given their own codes which do not conflict with existing codes. These typically end in X, such as where Birmingham, Alabama ( BHM ) had its radar site replaced by one south of

1248-479: The airport with nonstop service to Dallas / Fort Worth, TX , Lubbock, TX , Brownwood, TX and Hobbs, NM as well as direct no change of plane flights to Albuquerque , Clovis, NM , El Dorado, AR , Longview, TX and Santa Fe, NM with service to Albuquerque and Dallas/Fort Worth providing direct connections to TI DC-9 jet flights to Houston , Los Angeles and Little Rock . Texas International then ended service to Big Spring in 1974. A small commuter airline by

1296-587: The assigned identifiers are not always consistent with the current "encoding" rules adopted by the FAA, nor are all the assigned identifiers distinct between the United States and Canada. The coding system has evolved over time, and to ensure safety and reduce ambiguity, many "legacy" codes have remained intact, even though they violate the currently ordered rules. For this reason, the FAA regularly publishes detailed listings of all codes it administers In general, three-letter identifiers are assigned as radio call signs to aeronautical navigation aids; to airports with

1344-666: The city (BMX), or where the Knoxville ( TYS ) office was moved to nearby Morristown, Tennessee (MRX). Others have changed such that Miami, Florida is now MFL instead of MIA , and Dallas/Fort Worth (formerly DFW ) is now FWD. Climatological applications use the WBAN (Weather Bureau Army Navy) system, which is a five-digit numeric code for identifying weather stations under its jurisdiction. Recently it began using four-letter-plus-one-digit identifiers for specialized weather requirements such as hydrometeorological stations. These are used by

1392-652: The city bought the air base and converted it into the Hobbs Industrial Air Park, which is still used for soaring competitions. The first college in Hobbs opened in 1956. It was initially the First Baptist College, and in 1962, it became the College of the Southwest. The name was changed again to University of the Southwest in 2008. A second college, New Mexico Junior College , opened in 1966. An ordinance

1440-442: The city was $ 14,209. About 20.2% of families and 24.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.3% of those under age 18 and 15.5% of those age 65 or over. The largest industries in Hobbs are mining/quarrying and oil and gas extraction, followed by retail trade and educational services. Hobbs is also home to Zia Park, a racetrack, hotel and casino with over 750 slot machines and table games. Located in Hobbs are

1488-465: The city, the age distribution was 30.4% under 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 99.2 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 28,100, and for a family was $ 33,017. Males had a median income of $ 31,352 versus $ 20,841 for females. The per capita income for

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1536-476: The city. As of 2010, 33,405 people, 10,040 households, and 7,369 families were residing in the city. The population density was 1,514.0 inhabitants per square mile (584.6/km ). The 11,968 housing units averaged 632.3 units per square mile (244.1 units/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 63.5% White, 6.8% African American, 1.1% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 24.5% from other races, and 3.7% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 42.18% of

1584-576: The first class began in April 1952. The base population soon passed the 2,000 mark. By the end of 1968 almost 9,000 pilots had been trained at Webb. In 1956 the 331st Fighter Interceptor Squadron was transferred to Webb from Stewart Air Force Base in New York to defend the United States border with air intercept missions. In March 1967 the 331st was redesignated the 4760th Combat Crew Training Squadron and charged with training Royal Jordanian Air Force students. It

1632-530: The first postmaster. By 1911, about 25 landowners lived in Hobbs. The small, isolated settlement expanded rapidly following the discovery of oil by the Midwest Oil Company in 1927. A refinery was built the following year, and in 1929, the town of Hobbs was officially incorporated. At the peak of this oil boom, over 12,000 people lived in Hobbs. When the Great Depression hit, oil prices dropped and

1680-588: The first two, middle, or last two positions of the four-character code. The use of the FAA identifier system in meteorology ended in 1996 when airways reporting code was replaced by METAR code . The METAR code is dependent wholly on the ICAO identifier system. Since January 2019, the National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil (ANAC) issues a six-digit designator called Aerodrome Identification Code ( Portuguese : Código de Identificação de Aeródromo , CIAD) for each aerodrome. The first two digits are

1728-517: The letters related to the State of the Federation where the aerodrome is located and the next four digits are numbers assigned by ANAC. In the case of military aerodromes, the first number is 9. Transport Canada assigns two-, three-, and four-character identifiers, including three-letter identifiers beginning with letters Y and Z, for its areas of jurisdiction. These identifiers are designed to mesh with

1776-439: The name of Trans Regional then offered service from Big Spring to DFW and Midland/Odessa, Texas but their service ended by early 1976 and Big Spring has not seen commercial air service since that time. Howard County Airport closed by 1985 at which time all local aviation moved back to McMahon-Wrinkle Airport. The airport covers 2,086 acres (844 ha) and has two paved runways: 17/35 is 8,802 x 100 ft (2,683 x 30 m) and 6/24

1824-703: The nearest town, or the name of the stream, or a combination of the two; and the same names may be rearranged into different mnemonics for different nearby locations. For example, VING1 is the gauge at Vinings, Georgia , and is differentiated from other stations along the Chattahoochee River (such as CHAG1 in nearby Oakdale) which are also at the Atlanta city limit like Vinings is, and from other streams in Atlanta such as Peachtree Creek (AANG1). The United States Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA), acting on behalf of all

1872-450: The new Howard County Airport (HCA) northeast of Big Spring in 1960–61. Trans-Texas Airways (TTa) replaced Continental at HCA in 1963 using DC-3's and soon upgraded to Convair 240 piston engine aircraft and Convair 600 turboprops. Trans-Texas changed its name to Texas International Airlines in 1969. According to its July 1, 1970 system timetable, Texas International (TI) was operating four Convair 600 propjet flights every weekday from

1920-1003: The original locations were closed. Occasionally a code will be discontinued entirely, with no successor. Sometimes this is a small airport that has closed, such as Stone Mountain Airport , whose identifier 00A is now used for an R/C heliport in Bensalem, Pennsylvania . In another case, the identifiers for Idlewild Airport in New York were changed to JFK and KJFK when it was renamed after John F. Kennedy , and its original IDL and KIDL were later reused for Indianola Municipal Airport in Indianola, Mississippi . Transplanted identifiers tend to be poorly documented , and can cause problems in data systems and software which process historical records and in research and legal work. A similar problem also exists for broadcast callsigns . Hobbs, NM Hobbs

1968-402: The other for "state" or military operations, almost always the same except that the first character is now a Cyrillic "Ь" (=Latin "X"). These codes are given in the official document which has separate columns for national codes (civilian), national codes (military & state), and some also have "international" codes; only the latter correspond to ICAO codes. For example, Magadan Sokol Airport

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2016-412: The population fell to only about 3,000 in 1931. A few years later, though, activity picked up in the oilfields and the population climbed to about 14,000 in 1940. On June 23, 1938, seven local men were killed and five more injured when an explosive charge used in oil drilling detonated prematurely. Following the outbreak of World War II , Hobbs Army Airfield was built north of town in 1942. In 1948,

2064-413: The population. Of the 10,040 households, 39.8% had children under 18 living with them, 54.1% were married couples living together, 14.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.6% were not families. About 23.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.1% had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.72, and the average family size was 3.22. In

2112-501: The region; for example, K for the contiguous United States, C for Canada, E for northern Europe, R for the Asian Far East, and Y for Australia. Examples of ICAO location indicators are RPLL for Manila Ninoy Aquino Airport and KCEF for Westover Joint Air Reserve Base . The International Air Transport Association uses sets of three-letter IATA identifiers which are used for airline operations, baggage routing, and ticketing. There

2160-454: The three-letter series. Some of these identifiers are also assigned to aviation weather reporting stations. Two-letter, two-digit identifiers are assigned to private-use landing facilities in the United States and its jurisdictions which do not meet the requirements for three-character assignments. They are keyed by the two-letter Post Office or supplemental abbreviation of the state with which they are associated. The two-letter code appears in

2208-527: Was inactivated when the Jordanians were recalled because of the war with Israel in the summer of 1967. Webb was also the site of annual summer training for college Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC) cadets throughout the 1950s and most of the 1960s. In 1977 the end of the Vietnam War meant a decrease in the need for Air Force pilots. Webb was formally deactivated, and the property it had occupied

2256-562: Was passed in Hobbs in November 2022 to prevent abortion clinics from operating. This ordinance was overwritten by a 2023 state law prohibiting local abortion bans. Hobbs is in eastern Lea County, less than 4 mi (6 km) west of the Texas border. U.S. Routes 62 / 180 pass through the city, leading east 29 mi (47 km) to Seminole, Texas , and west 69 mi (111 km) to Carlsbad . State Road 18 also passes through Hobbs, leading northwest 21 mi (34 km) to Lovington ,

2304-651: Was turned over to the Big Spring Industrial Park. American Airlines , first operating as Southern Air Transport, began the first commercial air service to Big Spring in 1929 when the airport was called American Airlines Field through the 1930's. Big Spring was an important fuel stop between El Paso and Dallas for American's transcontinental flights between Los Angeles and New York. American first used early tri-motor aircraft followed by Douglas DC-3 's before service ended in 1950. Continental Airlines began flights in 1944 serving Big Spring as one of many stops on

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