![]() ![]() After the war, the airport land was transferred to the City of Chicago and renamed Orchard Field. The first airport there was known as Orchard Place/Douglas Field and was designated by the code ORD. ![]() The area was called Orchard Place and was used as an aircraft manufacturing site for the Douglas Aircraft Co. War Production Board purchased a 1,790-acre plot of underdeveloped orchard land outside of Chicago. Eventually, the Moisant Stock Yards gave way to New Orleans International Airport, and finally to its current name in honor of jazz icon Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. When the airport was built near the stockyards, the name stuck. After his death, the 3.82 miles of property became a cattle stockyard and was named after him. The code comes from early aviation pioneer John Moisant, who crashed his plane in a nearby field in 1910. MSY, in New Orleans, is one of those stories. But many others have strange three-letter codes that defy logic, and behind each of those codes is a story. Many airport codes are straightforward: PIT for Pittsburgh International, BOS for Boston Logan … even LGA for New York’s LaGuardia makes sense. ORD? That’s a little airstrip known as Chicago’s O’Hare International. ![]() Oddly enough, MCO is Orlando International Airport and MSY is Louis Armstrong New Orleans International. When’s the last time you flew to McCoy Air Force Base (MCO), Moisant Stock Yards (MSY) or Orchard Place (ORD)?
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