[rounce]

Given airport codes are namespaced by ICAO, it seems a bit of an oversight that the same scheme hasn’t been extended to other infrastructure like VORs and waypoints for systems exactly like this one, for cases when uniqueness is required.

[throw0101a]

> […] like VORs and waypoints for systems exactly like this one, for cases when uniqueness is required.

AIUI, most VORs (and in the past, NDBs) are located at airports. And there is an airport at Deauville (DOL/LFRG):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deauville–Normandie_Airport

But the beacon is elsewhere, apparently in some random(?) field:

* https://www.google.com/maps/place/49°18'38.0%22N+0°18'45.0%2...

* https://opennav.com/navaid/FR/DVL/DEAUVILLE+SAINT+GATIEN

[rounce]

There are plenty of navaids that aren’t associated with an airport, there’s probably around a dozen like this just south-east England.