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And the winner of all look like to be the Sembach Kaserne in Germany of course!

Formerly 'Sembach Air Base' and 'SEmbach AnneX', and it's a military air base, so normally it would not need an IATA code... In fact this nice code seem to have disappear from the official list... to bad :-(

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Ah yeah, those nice codes! Back the day a place I worked at used four letter codes for warehouses, and they had a lot of those. Someone realized the implications once the alphabetic list hit ANA..., you guessed it. ANU.. was skipped then. Was kind sad, we had all kinds of fun imagining how we wouod comment on all the screw up of those places in the weekly meetings...

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