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Which Airports Have Full Body Scanners?

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TSA MIllimeter Wave Picture - TSA Backscatter Body Imaging Picture - image from the TSA Showing Body

TSA Millimeter Wave Picture (Xray Body Imaging Image)

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Question: Which Airports Have Full Body Scanners?
Which airports have full body scanners? Across the US, 65 airports now have xray full body scanners, at airports security. Here's a list of the US airports that have full body scanners so you can know before you go whether the TSA wants to see you naked:
Answer:
  • Albuquerque International Sunport Airport
  • Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport
  • Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
  • Boise Airport
  • Boston Logan International Airport
  • Bradley International Airport (Windsor Locks, CT)
  • Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport
  • Buffalo Niagara International Airport
  • Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport
  • Charlotte Douglas International Airport
  • Chicago Midway International Airport
  • Chicago O'Hare International Airport
  • Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport
  • Cleveland International Airport
  • Dayton International Airport
  • Corpus Christi International Airport
  • Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
  • Denver International Airport
  • Detroit Metro Airport
  • Dulles International Airport
  • El Paso International Airport
  • Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport
  • Fort Wayne International Airport
  • Fresno Air Terminal
  • Gerald R. Ford Grand Rapids International Airport
  • General Mitchell Milwaukee International Airport
  • Grand Rapids Airport
  • Greater Rochester International Airport
  • Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport
  • Harlingen/Valley International Airport
  • Harrisburg International Airport
  • Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
  • Honolulu International Airport
  • Houston William P. Hobby Airport
  • Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport
  • Houston William P. Hobby Airport
  • Indianapolis International Airport
  • Jacksonville International Airport
  • John F. Kennedy International Airport
  • Kansas City International Airport
  • LaGuardia International Airport
  • Lambert/St. Louis International Airport
  • LA/Ontario International
  • Laredo International Airport
  • Lihue Airport
  • Los Angeles International Airport
  • Louis Armstrong New Orleans International
  • Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
  • McAllen Miller Airport
  • McCarran International Airport
  • Memphis International Airport
  • Miami International Airport
  • Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport
  • Mineta San José International Airport
  • Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport
  • Nashville International Airport
  • New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport
  • Newark Liberty International Airport
  • Oakland International Airport
  • Omaha Eppley Airfield Airport
  • Orlando International Airport
  • Palm Beach International Airport
  • Palm Springs International
  • Philadelphia International Airport
  • Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
  • Pittsburgh International Airport
  • Port Columbus International Airport
  • Raleigh-Durham International Airport
  • Richmond International Airport
  • Rochester International Airport
  • Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
  • Saipan International Airport
  • Salt Lake City International Airport
  • San Antonio International Airport
  • San Diego International Airport
  • San Francisco International Airport
  • San Jose International Airport
  • Sarasota Bradenton International
  • Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
  • Spokane International Airport
  • St. Petersburg-Clearwater International
  • T. F. Green International Airport - Warwick, RI (Serves Providence)
  • Tampa International Airport
  • Toledo Express
  • Tulsa International Airport
  • Washington DC Ronald Reagan International Airport

You can also find a constantly updated list at the FlyersTalk Forum.

The millimeter wave machines were tested at Phoenix's Sky Harbor and LA's LAX airports beginning in 2006/7. Americans didn't complain, and we now have the above 65 airports where we can either let the TSA see us naked, or receive an aggressive body search / patdown from a TSA employee. The body imaging, or millimeter wave imaging machines, or TSA full body scanners, scan a passenger on all sides and transmit the image of the passenger's body, without clothing, to a TSA agent seated 50-100 feet away from the TSA scanner. The object is to identify concealed (purposely or not) metal, plastics, ceramics, chemical materials and explosives via millimeter wave technology.

Comment: Will You Walk Through An X Ray Scanner?

What do you think? Will you agree to walk through a full body imaging machine at the airport? Comment or read comments on the TSA's full body scanners.

Comment: Have You Had a TSA Patdown?

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