Orange Walk Airport Explained

Orange Walk Airport
Iata:ORZ
Icao:MZTH
Type:Public
City-Served:Orange Walk Town, Belize
Location:Chan Pine Ridge
Elevation-F:111
Coordinates:18.0467°N -88.5833°W
Pushpin Map:Belize
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of the airport in Belize
Pushpin Label:ORZ
Pushpin Label Position:top
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:10/28
R1-Length-M:714
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Footnotes:Source: GCM Google Maps[1]

Orange Walk Airport (now officially Alfredo Martinez Chan Pine Ridge Airstrip) is a public use airport 3km (02miles) southwest of Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District, Belize. The airport was also known as Tower Hill Airport.

The gravel airstrip was refurbished with asphalt in 2014.[2]

The Chetumal VOR-DME (Ident: CTM) is located 31.2nmi north-northeast of the airport. The Belize VOR-DME (Ident: BZE) is located 34.1nmi south-southeast of the airport.[3] [4]

The original Orange Walk Airport was east of the town, but was closed sometime prior to 2001,[5] and is now part of a highway bypass.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Orange Walk Airport . Google Maps . 20 January 2019.
  2. http://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/499532/OW_Will_Get_Refurbished_Runway.html Refurbished and renamed
  3. Web site: Chetumal VOR . Our Airports . 20 January 2019.
  4. Web site: Belize VOR . Our Airports . 20 January 2019.
  5. [Google Earth Historical Imagery]
  6. http://aerobaticsweb.org/cgi-bin/search_apt?ORZ Original Orange Walk Airport