Editing Area 51 (section)

==Civil aviation identification==

In December 2007, airline pilots noticed that the base had appeared in their aircraft navigation systems' latest [[Jeppesen]] database revision with the [[ICAO]] airport identifier code of KXTA and listed as "Homey Airport".<ref name="aopa-kxta-20080111">{{cite web |last=Marsh |first=Alton K. |url=http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2008/080110area51.html |title=Don't ask, don't tell: Area 51 gets airport identifier – Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association |publisher=Aopa.org |date=10 January 2008 |access-date=10 June 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512063545/http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2008/080110area51.html |archive-date=12 May 2013}}</ref> The probably inadvertent release of the airport data led to advice by the [[Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association]] (AOPA) that student pilots should be explicitly warned about KXTA, not to consider it as a waypoint or destination for any flight even though it now appears in public navigation databases.<ref name="aopa-kxta-20080111"/>