| Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport | |
| Nativename: | Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto de Trelew |
| Nativename-A: | Welsh: Maes Awyr Almirante Marcos A. Zar |
| Iata: | REL |
| Icao: | SAVT |
| Pushpin Map: | Argentina |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
| Pushpin Label: | REL |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Argentina |
| Type: | Public / military |
| Operator: | Government and London Supply |
| City-Served: | Trelew, Argentina |
| Elevation-F: | 141 |
| Coordinates: | -43.2097°N -65.2833°W |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 07/25 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2560 |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
| Stat-Year: | 2016 |
| Stat1-Header: | Total passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 252,594 |
| Footnotes: | Source: GCM SkyVector[1] Google Maps[2] |
Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport (Welsh: Maes Awyr Almirante Marcos A. Zar, Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto Almirante Marcos A. Zar) is an airport in Trelew, Chubut Province, Argentina, named after the Argentine Navy Admiral and aviator Marcos Andrés Zar. The airport serves the cities of Trelew and Rawson.
The airport is 3km (02miles) northeast of Trelew and from Rawson, the capital of Chubut Province. It has a passenger terminal and has parking for 128 cars. It is operated by London Supply.[3]
The Trelew Almirante Zar Naval Air Base is on the airport, and has an Argentine Naval Aviation squadron flying P-3 Orions.
This airport replaced an airport noted as a pivotal site during the Trelew massacre. On August 15, 1972, 110 prisoners escaped from the Rawson jail and tried to hijack an Austral Líneas Aéreas BAC One-Eleven en route to Comodoro Rivadavia, in order to escape to Chile and from there to Cuba. Their plans failed, and 19 of them were killed by the army on August 22, at 3:30 AM.[4] [5]