| Chame Airport | |
| Lid: | MP24 |
| Type: | Public |
| Location: | Panama |
| Elevation-F: | 141 |
| Coordinates: | 8.5889°N -79.8897°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Panama |
| Pushpin Label: | MP24 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Panama |
| Metric-Rwy: | Y |
| R1-Number: | 18/36 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,200 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Footnotes: | Sources: WAD[1] GCM Google Maps[2] |
Chame Airport (LID: MP24) is an airport serving Chame District, a district in the Panamá Oeste Province of Panama.
The airport is inland from the Gulf of Panama. There is distant rising terrain to the north.
The Taboga Island non-directional beacon (Ident: TBG) and VOR-DME (Ident: TBG) are 22.9nmi east-northeast of the airport.[3] [4]
During World War II the facility was used as an auxiliary military airfield (Chame Airdrome, Chame Airfield #1) of Howard Field as part of the defense of the Panama Canal. Assigned units were the USAAF 53d Fighter Group, 14th Fighter Squadron (2 January-24 November 1942) and 28th Fighter Squadron (10 November 1942 – 25 September 1945) flying P-39 Airacobras, AT-6, BT-13, and UC-78s.[5] [6]