Gamboa Airport (Spanish: Aeródromo Gamboa) (IATA: WCA, ICAO: SCST) is an airport serving Castro, a city on Chiloé Island in the Los Lagos Region of Chile.
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Castro, Chile | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 145 ft / 44 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°29′18″S 73°46′30″W / 42.48833°S 73.77500°W | ||||||||||
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  WCA Location of airport in Chile | |||||||||||
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The airport runs along the shoreline just south of Gamboa, and south approach and departures are over the water. Runway 34 has an additional 175 metres (574 ft) of unpaved overrun on the north end.
The Mocopulli VOR-DME (Ident: MPI) is located 9.3 nautical miles (17.2 km) north of the airport.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ SkyVector - Gamboa
- ^ Airport information for Gamboa Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ "Gamboa Airport". Google Maps. google .com. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
- ^ Mocopulli VOR - SkyVector Aeronautical Charts
External links
edit- OpenStreetMap - Gamboa
- Aeródromo Gamboa (SCST) at Aerodromo.cl
- OurAirports - Gamboa
- FallingRain - Gamboa Airport
- Accident history for Gamboa Airport at Aviation Safety Network
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