Patillas Airport was a public
airport
An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
south of the small town of
Patillas, in
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated ...
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Google Earth Historical Imagery (12/12/2014) shows an east-west asphalt runway. The (7/14/2015) image shows the runway marked closed. Current imagery (1/1/2018) shows the runway area now used for industrial storage.
See also
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Transport in Puerto Rico
Transportation in Puerto Rico includes a system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ports and harbors, and railway systems, serving a population of approximately 4 million year-round. It is funded primarily with both local and federal gov ...
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List of airports in Puerto Rico
This is a list of airports in Puerto Rico (an unincorporated territory of the United States), grouped by type and sorted by location. It contains 19 public-use and military airports in the Commonwealth. Some private-use and former airports may be i ...
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Patillas Airport closed
Defunct airports in Puerto Rico
Airports in Puerto Rico
Patillas, Puerto Rico
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