El Buitre Airfield Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. http://aerobaticsweb.org/cgi-bin/search_apt?SCAE Airport record for El Buitre Airport
  2. http://ourairports.com/navaids/ARI/Arica_VOR-DME_CL/ Arica VOR