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Dev tools · November 28, 2017

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Airport Locations from Around the World

The Global Airport Database by Arash Partow is a FREE online downloadable database of aiports big and small, commercial and military from around the world. The database is presented in a simple token seperated format.

Airport Locations from Around the World launched on November 28, 2017 with 87 votes, #544 of 3,137 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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Airport Locations from Around the World is a free downloadable database containing information on approximately 9,300 airports globally, including commercial, military, and smaller facilities. Created by Arash Partow, the database uses a simple token-delimited format and provides detailed airport information across 16 standardized fields. It is designed for developers and organizations needing structured airport data for applications, mapping, or reference purposes.

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The Global Airport Database (GADB) is a FREE downloadable database of 9300 airports big and small from all around the world. The database is presented in a simple token delimited format. The database provides detailed information about the airports listed including: The Global Airport Database is comprised from a series of tuples. Each tuple contains exactly 16 fields of varying pieces of information. The fields depending on what they represent are either a text string, integer, floating point or character. Some fields are of constant length whilst others are of varying length. The fields are separated from each other by a single colon character ':' acting as a delimiter. There are no…from partow.net

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