Is there an official FAA document with which I can find an airport by its identifier code if I do not have a name or location? In the Chart Supplement I can find the airport if I know the city and state. However, I can’t seem to find any sort of reverse lookup document that lets me find it by code only.
I know I can search on SkyVector/ForeFlight/etc. but I am specifically asking if there is a government published “index document” for this.
The FAA JO 7350.9L - Location Identifiers contains complete lists under decode subsections organized alphabetically. Example:
Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File
This database, commonly just called "DAFIF", is maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Unfortunately, updates to this database are no longer published to public domain as of 2006. If you are not an authorized user, you can still use pre-2006 data from sources around the internet, which will likely be good enough for what you need. Look around for "DAFIF cycle 0610". The database contains ARPT.TXT, a tab-separated text file with metadata for both large and small airports around the world, including various types of identifiers (ICAO, FAA-ID, Name, Lat/Lon, etc).
