US Airports KML file updated. That's 13,632 airports.

There are 13,632 airports in the FAA database. That does not count balloonports, seaplane bases, gliderports, heliports, or ultralight facilities. That's also a huge number of placemarks for a KML file, so your Google Earth machine will need some processing power.

If you pan out, the placemark icons will cover the continental United States. It also drives home the point that if you're flying high enough and your engine dies, you should be able to glide to an airport.

Improvements: Public airports are in blue; private airports are in red. AWOS data is included where applicable. (If airports have an AWOS, it's included. Note that ATIS is not the same as AWOS.)

Code improvements: All output code is Python. The database is still Microsoft SQL, and the API is adodb for Python. Next: Porting output code to Linux (need a new database connection) and keeping back end MS SQL for now. Long-term: cleaning up and uploading data via python into MySQL.

Random Comments on Python: String manipulation in python is the same as in visual basic script, but different. If statements have no end, just an indent and and end of indent.

The KML file is in the KML archive, as usual. DO NOT USE FOR NAVIGATION.