El Buitre Airport | |
Icao: | SCAE |
Type: | Military |
City-Served: | Arica, Chile |
Elevation-F: | 328 |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
Coordinates: | -18.5086°N -70.2889°W |
Pushpin Map: | Chile |
Pushpin Label: | SCAE |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of El Buitre Airport in Chile |
R1-Number: | 09/27 |
R1-Length-M: | 1200 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
H1-Number: | 1 |
H1-Length-M: | 22 |
H1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source: Landings.com[1] Google Maps GCM |
El Buitre Airport (Spanish; Castilian: Aeródromo El Buitre,) is a military airport just south of Arica, a Pacific coastal city in the Tarapacá Region of Chile.
The runway is 2km (01miles) inland from the Pacific shore. There is distant rising terrain southeast of the airport.
The Arica VOR-DME (Ident: ARI) is located 8.9nmi north-northwest of the airport.[2]