You may have noticed the large painted numbers (or alphanumeric in some cases) on either end of the runways. Have you ever wondered what those represent and why there are a maximum of two numbers ...

The 9,000-foot runway 17L/35R at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport won’t be called that when it reopens after construction, per Aviation International News. Turns out, those runway numbers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every runway in the world is numbered... twice. These two numbers are closely linked to a shifting magnetic north, but are ...

John Wayne Airport’s two runways are getting new call numbers, airport officials said, and the reason is out of this world — sort of. Because the runway designations are tied to Earth’s magnetic poles ...