Pisagua Airport Explained

Pisagua Airport
Icao:SCPS
Type:Public
City-Served:Pisagua, Chile
Elevation-F:1260
Metric-Rwy:y
Coordinates:-19.6014°N -70.1978°W
Pushpin Map:Chile
Pushpin Label:SCPS
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Pisagua Airport in Chile
R1-Number:01/19
R1-Length-M:945
R1-Surface:Dirt
Footnotes:Source: Landings.com[1] Google Maps

Pisagua Airport (Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto de Pisagua), is an airstrip 2km (01miles) east of the Pacific coastal village of Pisagua, in the Tarapacá Region of Chile.

The airstrip sits on a mesa high above the village. There is rising terrain to the east, and a steep drop to the Pacific to the west. The runway end markers are well outside the graded runway, which extends substantially beyond the markers at either end.

Some sources have the ICAO code "SCPS" for the closed Perales Airport in the Atacama Region.[2] [3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://aerobaticsweb.org/cgi-bin/search_apt?SCPS Airport record for Pisagua Airport
  2. http://ourairports.com/airports/SCPS/ OurAirports
  3. http://www.fallingrain.com/icao/SCPS.html FallingRain