Ometepe Airport Explained

Ometepe Airport
Nativename:La Paloma Airport
Icao:MNLP
Type:Public
Owner-Oper:INAC
City-Served:Moyogalpa, Nicaragua
Elevation-F:213
Coordinates:11.5236°N -85.7014°W
Pushpin Map:Nicaragua
Pushpin Label:MNLP
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the airport in Nicaragua
Website:EAAI Ometepe
Metric-Rwy:yes
R1-Length-M:1500
R1-Surface:Asphalt
R1-Number:09/27
Footnotes:Source: GCM Google Maps[1]

Ometepe Airport (Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto La Paloma de Ometepe (OMT)) is the only airport on Ometepe, the largest island in Lake Nicaragua. The airport is in the La Paloma comarca of Moyogalpa, Rivas Department, Nicaragua, 1.6km (01miles) south of Moyogalpa.

The airport was built in May of 2014 at a cost of almost .[2] [3]

The runway begins at the shoreline, and west approaches and departures are over the water. The volcanic slopes of Concepción volcano begin 5km (03miles) east of the runway.[1]

The Managua VOR-DME (Ident: MGA) is located 45.6nmi northwest of Ometepe Airport. The Liberia VOR-DME is located 56.3nmi south of the airport.[4] [5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ometepe Airport . Google Maps . Google . 14 January 2019.
  2. Web site: Ometepe . Empresa Administradora de Aeropuertos Nacionales . 2015-11-09.
  3. Web site: Rogers . Tim . Ometepe Island opens overdue airport . Nicaragua Dispatch . 2014-05-14 . 2016-01-11.
  4. Web site: Managua VOR . Our Airports . 14 January 2019.
  5. Web site: Liberia VOR . Our Airports . 14 January 2019.