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This month’s navaid is at a U.S. airport, which is located on a harbor.  

The airport has the same name (a person’s last name) as a smaller airline-served airport in the western United States.

email: vor@dispatcher.org with your guess!

sep 2016 vor
ANSWER: (BOS) Boston

This month's winners:
1. Drew Bailey, FDX
2. Benny Hill, BAW
3. Ed Pataky
4.  Dale Gentry - SWA
5.  Brady Castleberry - Allegiant
6.  Trevor Fuhriman - Empire
7.  Adam Schweber - Empire
8.  Walter Wilson 
9.  Ingo Himbeck - Allegiant
10.  Arthur Carson 
11. Mark Monse


  • This navaid is located in the United States, on land managed by a group,
    rather than by the state in which it is located.  It’s named after that group.  
  • It’s located near a town of the same name, but that town is in a different state.
  • The nearest airport, in an adjoining town, has the same identifier as the navaid.
  • If you went to the town where that airport is located, six decades ago,you could have had a Bad Day.

                                                   ANSWER: ZUNI (ZUN)

Photo by Hiroshi Ando

Email: vor@dispatcher.org with your guess!

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This Month's Winners:
Dale Gentry - Southwest
Ed Pataky
Adam Gutterman
Warren Andrews
Mark Christopher - Air Canada Jazz
Arthur Carson
Laura Laster
Trevor Fuhriman - Empire Airlines
Adam Schweber - Empire Airlines
Brian Brown - Southwest
Steven Mercer - Empire Airlines 



This navaid is named after the nearby city, but it’s actually closer to another, arguably more well-known place, because of a 1959 plane crash.  

You’d have to drive your Chevy to the levy to see it.

photo by Paul Wickstrom

Email: vor@dispatcher.org with your guess!

july 2016 vor


ANSWER:
Mason City (MCW)

This Month's Winners:
1. Drew Bailey, FDX
2. Laura Laster
3.  Walter Wilson
4.  Justin Lonie, FDX
5.  Dale Gentry, SWA
6.  Ed Pataky
7.  Adam Gutterman 
8.  Adam Schweber, Empire Airlines
9.  Trevor Fuhriman, Empire Airlines
10.  Steven Mercer, Empire Airlines
11.  Arthur Carson
12.  Mark Christopher, Air Canada Jazz

March 2016 VOR Quiz
This Navaid, in the bottom left of this photo, is named after a nearby sporting venue, but not the one in the photo. 

There’s a horse and an eagle in the photo as well.

Email pboyle@dispatcher.org with your guess!

This months winners:

Drew Bailey FDX
Adam Gutterman
Dale gentry - Southwest
Kenneth Dechmerowski - National Airlines

Answer:  Brickyard - VHP

March 2016 VOR

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