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This month’s navaid is in the United States, inside Class B airspace. 

It’s named after the county where it is located.   That county is named after a river that flows through it, itself named after a French fur trapper.

It has the same identifier as a large general aviation airport located five miles away.  That airport has a distinctively shaped main ramp.

Sep 19

Answer:  see below (page down)


Email: VOR@dispatcher.org Your answer

Correct Answers:  

Connor Monson - Alaska Airlines
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Ed Pataky
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Ethan St. Martin - United Airlines
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DuPage (DPA)

This navaid is located outside the capital city of a U.S. state, and shares its name.
A local institution of higher learning was renamed to honor the last name of a man who was an early benefactor of the university. 
It has as its mascot that man's unusual first name (for today).  
There was a landmark Supreme Court Case regarding the local school system.
The local airport is named after someone named PHIL!

June 2019

Photo by Phil Brooks

Email VOR@Dispatcher.org your answer

Correct answers:  
TOP - Topeka

Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
Jim Hanson - Cape Air
Dale Gentry- Southwest Airlines
Ed Pataky
Chuck Mann - United Airlines
Connor Monson - Alaska Airlines
Adam Schweber - Frontier Airlines
James Clavin-Marquet
Arthur Carson - Miami-Dade College



This Navaid is in the United States.  Its name indicates the quality of the atmosphere at that location.  It's also spelled similar to that of a long-running U.S. car model name.

Photo by Darryl Davis- Southwest Airlines

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email: vor@dispatcher.org with your guess!

this month's winners:
1. Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
2. Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines
3. Adam Gutterman

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Bellaire (AIR)



This Navaid is located near a small town in the U.S., and named after that town.  It shares an identifier with that town's airport, which has no scheduled airline service.

The name is a "constructed name" of two nouns; things you might find in a rural area.

It's near a staircase, and "Sevier" turbulence is possible!

OCT 2019

Email: VOR@dispatcher.org Your answer

Correct Answers:  

Mark Nashed - National Airlines
David Birkley
Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines

This NAVAID is in Europe.
The airport where it is located has regional airline service.
Despite being on the airport, it has a different identifier.
It's near a crossroad along a pilgrimage route, in the northern part of that country. 
It's named after the nearby city, which is the capital of the province where the country's language is believed to have originated. 

Photo by Debbie Kowalewski

November 18

email: vor@dispatcher.org with your guess!


this month's winner (only one, wow!):
1.  Dale Gentry - Southwest Airlines

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Answer - Burgos (VIA)