Use this form if you need to find a code/decode on an airport or airport designator. Additionally, some results return the latitude and longitude of the station and an indication of whether TAFs are available.
You can do a search on partial words; so 'Aber' would certainly return Aberdeen! And EG would return all the UK ICAO stations
The wild card character is %. An ICAO search for %EG would return all those ICAO codes with EG anywhere in the code. (Computer anoraks will realise that a wild card is added to the end of the search string, automatically, by the software.)
Searching for an airport name will find all database entries which contain your search string anywhere in the airport name. In other words a 'greedy' search is performed, returning as many matches as possible.
Unfortunately, searching on city names to locate an airport often fails. Paris, for example is not listed, but Charles De Gaulle is; Perpignan isn't but Rivesaltes is. So unfortunately a little local knowlege may be required.
There are currently 8916 airports/locations listed in the database.
This search facility is also available to you on your cell phone; it is part of the YAWS family of products for GA pilots