Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport ( es, link=no, Aeropuerto Internacional Gobernador Francisco Gabrielli) , better known as El Plumerillo International Airport, is located northeast of the centre of
Mendoza, capital of the
Mendoza Province of
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. It is operated by
Aeropuertos Argentina 2000
Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 S.A., sometimes abbreviated as AA2000, is a company based in the city of Buenos Aires that operates 35 airports in Argentina.
It was founded in 1998 to manage and operate airports within the Argentine territory, and pr ...
The
4th Air Brigade (El Plumerillo Military Air Base) is located on the southern section of the airport.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
Accidents and incidents
*20 January 1944: A
LanChile
LATAM Airlines Group S.A. is an airline holding company headquartered in Santiago, Chile. It is considered the largest airline company in Latin America with subsidiaries in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru. The company filed for Ch ...
Lodestar 18–50,
registration CC-CLC-0072, was due to operate a
Mendoza–
San Juan San Juan, Spanish for Saint John, may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Juan Province, Argentina
* San Juan, Argentina, the capital of that province
* San Juan, Salta, a village in Iruya, Salta Province
* San Juan (Buenos Aires Underground), ...
cargo service when it crashed on
takeoff
Takeoff is the phase of flight in which an aerospace vehicle leaves the ground and becomes airborne. For aircraft traveling vertically, this is known as liftoff.
For aircraft that take off horizontally, this usually involves starting with a t ...
, killing all 12 occupants aboard.
See also
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Transport in Argentina
Transport in Argentina is mainly based on a complex network of routes, crossed by relatively inexpensive long-distance buses and by cargo trucks. The country also has a number of national and international airports. The importance of the long-di ...
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List of airports in Argentina
This is a list of airports in Argentina, sorted by location.
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Airports
ICAO location identifiers link to airport page at Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos' (ORSNA), where availableMap of airports.
Airport names sho ...
References
External links
Mendoza AirportAeropuertos Argentina 2000
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Airports in Argentina
Airports in Mendoza Province
Buildings and structures in Mendoza, Argentina
Buildings and structures in Mendoza Province