El Palomar Airport
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El Palomar Airport , is a military airport in El Palomar
, Argentina
. It is the homebase of Argentine Air Force
1st Air Brigade , located 18 km (11 mi) west of Buenos Aires
, near the El Palomar station of the San Martín
railway line.
of 59 feet (18 m) above mean sea level and it has one runway
designated 16/34 which measures 6923 by 164 ft (2,110.1 by 50 ).
This airport was being used as a second back up for Aeroparque Jorge Newberry (After Argentina's international airport; Ezeiza) due to maintenance of their runways around November 2010.
El Palomar, Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. It is the homebase of Argentine Air Force
Argentine Air Force
The Argentine Air Force is the national aviation branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic. , it had 14,606 military and 6,854 civilian staff.-History:...
1st Air Brigade , located 18 km (11 mi) west of Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, near the El Palomar station of the San Martín
Ferrocarril General San Martín
Ferrocarril General San Martín , named after the former Argentine general José de San Martín, was one of the six state-owned Argentine railway companies formed after President Juan Perón's nationalisation of the railway network in 1948...
railway line.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 59 feet (18 m) above mean sea level and it has one runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 16/34 which measures 6923 by 164 ft (2,110.1 by 50 ).
This airport was being used as a second back up for Aeroparque Jorge Newberry (After Argentina's international airport; Ezeiza) due to maintenance of their runways around November 2010.