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The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO / ˌ aɪ ˈ k eɪ oʊ / eye-KAY-oh) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. [3]
It received the requisite 26th ratification on March 5, 1947, and went into effect on April 4, 1947, the same date that ICAO came into being. In October of the same year, ICAO became a specialized agency of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). The convention has since been revised eight times (in 1959, 1963, 1969, 1975, 1980 ...
The ICAO airport 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 quarterly in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
Flag of the ICAO. An aircraft type designator is a two-, three- or four-character alphanumeric code designating every aircraft type (and some sub-types) that may appear in flight planning. These codes are defined by both the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
ICAO code may refer to: . ICAO airport code, a four-letter code designating each airport; ICAO airline designator, a three-letter code designating each airline; ICAO aircraft type designator, a three- or four-character alphanumeric code designating every aircraft type (and some sub-types) that may appear in flight planning
ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organisation, the UN body that regulates global aviation (and strays into areas such as the dimensions and flexibility of passports). Also headquartered in Montreal.
General aviation aircraft at Cheb Airfield in Czech Republic. General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes. [1]
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a body of the United Nations succeeding earlier international committees going back to 1903. These two organizations served to create regulations over airports which the airports themselves had no authority to debate.