Chaitén Airfield | |
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Icao: | |
Type: | Closed |
City-Served: | Chaitén, Chile |
Elevation-F: | 13 |
Coordinates: | -42.9328°N -72.6994°W |
Pushpin Map: | Chile |
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Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Chaitén Airfield in Chile |
R1-Number: | Closed |
Footnotes: | Source: Google Maps |
Chaitén Airfield (Spanish; Castilian: Aeródromo Chaitén,) was an airport serving Chaitén, a town in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. The airport was damaged and closed after the 2008 eruption of Chaitén Volcano.
A provisional airstrip was established away at the hamlet of Santa Bárbara, by widening of the Carretera Austral highway.[1]
In 2013, construction began on Nuevo Chaitén Airport, which then assumed the ICAO and IATA codes of the closed airport.[2] The new airport is northwest of Chaitén.