Chinandega Airport (
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: ''Pista Aérea Germán Pomares Ordoñez'') is an airport serving
Chinandega
Chinandega () is a city and the departmental seat of Chinandega department in Nicaragua. It is also the administrative centre of the surrounding municipality of the same name. It is Nicaragua's 2nd most important city (economy) and 6th largest ...
, the capital of the
Chinandega Department
Chinandega () is a department in Nicaragua, located on the border with Honduras. It covers an area of 4,822 km2 and has a population of 441,897 (2021 estimate). The capital is the city of Chinandega.
Largely agricultural, it produces rum f ...
of
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
. The airport is on the northwest edge of the city.
The Managua
VOR-DME
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(Ident: MGA) is located southeast of the airport.
History
In the early 1980s, the airstrip was used primarily by
light aircraft
A light aircraft is an aircraft that has a maximum gross takeoff weight of or less.Crane, Dale: ''Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, third edition'', page 308. Aviation Supplies & Academics, 1997.
Light aircraft are used as utility aircraft co ...
for aerial fumigation. The Chinandega Airport, also known as the ''El Picacho Airport'', was renovated in 2010 by the Nicaraguan Civil Aeronautics Authority (INAC).
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See also
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* List of airports in Nicaragua
This is a list of airports in Nicaragua, sorted by location.
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* Transport in Nicaragua
* List of airports by ICAO code: M#MN - Nicaragua
* Wikipedia: WikiProject Aviation/Airline destination lists: North America ...
* Transport in Nicaragua Transport in Nicaragua revolves around road, air and water transport modalities.
Road transport
The road infrastructure is very well spread across the Pacific side, while the Atlantic side has less infrastructure. As of 2009, from a total of 19,13 ...
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Chinandega
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Airports in Nicaragua
Chinandega Department
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