Meet the New MKE Letters

Meet the New MKE Letters

General Mitchell International Airport just tweeted out this photo of a crane hoisting three new “MKE” letters into place. Remember, this is what these three letters are supposed to be used for. Here are some other FAA location identifiers used by airstrips/helipads in the city. Slim pickings, from a marketing perspective. Meet me at 23WS? LJT? 15C? My 2WI3 Hospital? MILWAUKEE, WI       128 ARW BASE OPS FFG     AURORA ST LUKE’S MEDICAL CENTER HELIPORT 0WI0     BADGER VORTAC BAE     CG BASE/WOS 15C     COLUMBIA ST. MARY’S HELIPORT 23WS     GENERAL MITCHELL INTL ARPT MKE     GENERAL MITCHELL INTL ILS RWY 19R BLY     GENERAL MITCHELL…

General Mitchell International Airport just tweeted out this photo of a crane hoisting three new “MKE” letters into place. Remember, this is what these three letters are supposed to be used for.

Here are some other FAA location identifiers used by airstrips/helipads in the city. Slim pickings, from a marketing perspective. Meet me at 23WS? LJT? 15C? My 2WI3 Hospital?

MILWAUKEE, WI

 

    128 ARW BASE OPS

FFG

    AURORA ST LUKE’S MEDICAL CENTER HELIPORT

0WI0

    BADGER VORTAC

BAE

    CG BASE/WOS

15C

    COLUMBIA ST. MARY’S HELIPORT

23WS

    GENERAL MITCHELL INTL ARPT

MKE

    GENERAL MITCHELL INTL ILS RWY 19R

BLY

    GENERAL MITCHELL INTL ILS/DME RWY 01L

MKE

    GENERAL MITCHELL INTL ILS/DME RWY 07R

GMF

    GENERAL MITCHELL INTL LOC/DME RWY 25L

PXY

    LAWRENCE J TIMMERMAN ARPT

MWC

    LAWRENCE J TIMMERMAN LOCALIZER RWY 15L

MWC

    MILWAUKEE RCO

MKE

    ST MARY’S HOSPITAL OF MILWAUKEE HELIPORT

WS03

    TEELS NDB

GM

    TIMMERMAN RCO

LJT

    TIMMERMAN VOR/DME

LJT

MILWAUKEE RGNL MEDICAL CENTER HELIPORT, WAUWATOSA, WI

2WI3

And hey, we just did a feature on the airport a while back: “A Little Turbulence.” Suck down your ginger ale, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Matt has written for Milwaukee Magazine since 2006, when he was a lowly intern. Since then, he’s held the posts of assistant news editor and, most recently, senior editor. He’s lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, Iowa, and Indiana but mostly in Wisconsin. He wants to do more fishing but has a hard time finding worms. For the magazine, Matt has written about city government, schools, religion, coffee roasters and Congress.