Pelicano Airport Explained

Pelicano Airport
Icao:SCEC
Type:Public
City-Served:Las Campanas Observatory
Location:Estación Chañar, Chile
Elevation-F:3678
Metric-Rwy:y
Coordinates:-29.1444°N -70.8878°W
Pushpin Map:Chile
Pushpin Label:SCEC
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Pelicano Airport in Chile
R1-Number:02/20
R1-Length-M:1,320
R1-Surface:Asphalt
Footnotes:Source: Landings.com[1] Google Maps GCM

Pelicano Airport Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto Pelicano, is a desert airport near Estación Chañar, La Higuera, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.

The airport serves the astronomy community of the Las Campanas Observatory, one of the high elevation observatories in the Atacama Desert.

The runway has an additional of gravel overrun on the south end, which then drops into a canyon.

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Notes and References

  1. http://aerobaticsweb.org/cgi-bin/search_apt?SCEC Airport record for Pelicano Airport