El Bluff Airport Explained

El Bluff Airport
Icao:MNFF
Type:Closed
City-Served:El Bluff
Elevation-F:1
Coordinates:11.9917°N -83.6894°W
Pushpin Map:Nicaragua
Pushpin Label:MNFF
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the airport in Nicaragua
R1-Number:Closed
Footnotes:Sources: GCM[1] Google Maps[2]

El Bluff Airport was an airport on El Bluff, once an island in the entrance to Bluefields Bay, South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, Nicaragua, but now connected to the mainland via a causeway constructed between 2004 and 2007.[3] Google Earth Historical Imagery show progressive deterioration of the asphalt runway until a helicopter pad and hangar were built on the southwestern end in 2013. The hangar was torn down and the helipad markings removed sometime after 2015.[4]

The area is now served by Bluefields Airport across the bay at Bluefields, the regional capital.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.greatcirclemapper.net/en/airport/MNFF-el-bluff-airport.html Great Circle Mapper - El Bluff
  2. https://www.google.com/maps/@11.99254,-83.68812,2441m/data=!3m1!1e3 Google Maps - El Bluff
  3. Google Earth Historical Images 1969-2014
  4. Google Earth Historical Imagery (2/2015) (12/2017)