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{
"id": "stc",
"name": "St. Cloud Regional Airport",
"city": "St. Cloud ",
"state": "Minnesota",
"stateShort": "MN",
"country": "USA",
"description": "St. Cloud Regional Airport gets its three-letter code from the city of *St*. *C*loud.",
"imageCredit": "",
"imageCreditLink": ""
}
{
"id": "mth",
"name": "Sacramento Mather Airport",
"city": "Sacramento",
"state": "California",
"stateShort": "CA",
"country": "USA",
"description": "Sacramento Mather Airport is located on the former *M*a*th*er Air Force Base, named after Second Lieutenant Carl Spencer Mather who was killed in 1918.",
"imageCredit": "",
"imageCreditLink": ""
}
Named after Charles McNary, US Senator for Oregon and 1940 candidate for Vice President, this airport code takes from the city of SaLEm, Oregon.
St. Cloud is a regional airport and backup feeder airport for MSP, and the code is named for the city of ST. Cloud, Minnesota.
Another instance of an airport that used to be a military airfield. Mather Airport is named for 2nd Lt. Carl Spencer MatHeR, a training pilot from WWI who lost his life in 1918.