Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport is an airport in Chubut Province

Chubut Province

Chubut a province in the southern part of Argentina situated between the 42nd parallel south and the 46th parallel south , the Andes range separating Argentina from Chile, and the Atlantic ocean...

, Argentina

Argentina

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, named after the Argentine Navy Admiral and naval aviator Marcos Andrés Zar. The airport serves the cities of Trelew

Trelew

-References:La Pasión según Trelew, Espejo de la Argentina, 1997, Editorial Planeta Argentina S.A.I.C.; Third Edition: April 2000, Buenos Aires, ISBN 950-742-859-3-External links:* * * *...

 and Rawson

Rawson, Chubut

Rawson is the capital of the Argentine province of Chubut, in Patagonia. It has about 26,000 inhabitants, and it is the head town of the Rawson Department, which has 122,000 inhabitants...

. Two airlines operate regularly to the airport, LADE

Lade

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 and Aerolíneas Argentinas

Aerolíneas Argentinas

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, and in May 2009 the latter is supposed to start direct international flights to Sao Paulo

São Paulo

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, Brazil

Brazil

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.

This airport replaced an airport noted as a pivotal site during the Trelew Massacre

Trelew massacre

The Trelew Massacre was the retaliatory government killing of 16 militants of different Peronist and left organizations held as political prisoners in Rawson Penitentiary. The prisoners were recaptured after an escape attempt and subsequently shot down by marines led by Lieutenant Commander Luis...

. On August 15, 1972, 110 prisoners escaped from the Rawson jail and tried to hijack a Austral Líneas Aéreas

Austral Líneas Aéreas

Austral Líneas Aéreas , more commonly known by its shortened name Austral, is a domestic airline of Argentina, the sister company of Aerolíneas Argentinas. It is the second largest domestic scheduled airline in the country, after Aerolíneas Argentinas itself...

 BAC One-Eleven

BAC One-Eleven

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 en route to Comodoro Rivadavia, in order to escape to Chile

Chile

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 and from there to Cuba

Cuba

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. Their plans failed, and 19 of them were killed by the army on August 22, at 3:30 AM.

This airport is 7km from Trelew

Trelew

-References:La Pasión según Trelew, Espejo de la Argentina, 1997, Editorial Planeta Argentina S.A.I.C.; Third Edition: April 2000, Buenos Aires, ISBN 950-742-859-3-External links:* * * *...

 and 26km from Rawson

Rawson, Chubut

Rawson is the capital of the Argentine province of Chubut, in Patagonia. It has about 26,000 inhabitants, and it is the head town of the Rawson Department, which has 122,000 inhabitants...

 (capital city of Chubut

Chubut Province

Chubut a province in the southern part of Argentina situated between the 42nd parallel south and the 46th parallel south , the Andes range separating Argentina from Chile, and the Atlantic ocean...

). It has a 3,500m² passenger terminal and 126,000m² of runways. It has a parking places for 128 cars.

It also home of the Argentine Naval Aviation

Argentine Naval Aviation

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 squadron of P-3 Orion

P-3 Orion

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s.

It is operated by London Supply.

Airlines and destinations

External links

• http://www.orsna.gov.ar/aeropuertos/infoaeropuertos.asp?id_aeropuerto=4, Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos
• http://www.aa2000.com.ar, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000
• http://www.londonsupply.net, London Supply