An unknown user reported issue XSG-4368: Correct ID to XUHPL on January 11, 2018 9:02 PM
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Klyuchi (Ключи) at N56.30978° E160.80458° is a small military base. It obviously has no genuine ICAO code. An official list* of 4-letter indexes shows its national code to be 'ьХПЛ'. According to standard transcription, and XP's naming rules, this suggests that the XP airport identifier should be 'XUHPL'. ['UH' is the ICAO region code for the Russian Far East.]

However XP currently uses a fake Airport ID, 'UHPY'. Can this be fixed?

P.S. A reliable (but not official) aviation site is
https://maps.aopa.ru/#lon/160.803464/lat/56.307268/z/14/ll/a/bl/gm/p/463/mode/r

  • Michael Minnhaar January 11, 2018 11:39 PM

    In this case, the airport ID on the gateway should be changed to XUHPY to avoid future conflict with any real ICAO code.
    In WED, please fill the meta-tags "Local code" with UHPY and "Local Authorithy" with a short but meaningfull name for the russian authorithy in charge, leave or make the "ICAO code", "IATA code" and "FAA code" fields empty and re-submit the airport.

  • Julian Lockwood January 12, 2018 1:19 PM

    ICAO code appears to be legitimate: https://airportguide.com/airport/runway/UHPY

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