Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport ( cy, Maes Awyr Almirante Marcos A. Zar, es, Aeropuerto Almirante Marcos A. Zar) is an airport in
Trelew
Trelew (, from cy, tref "town" and the name of the founder, Lewis Jones) is a city in the eastern part of the Chubut Province of Argentina. Located in Patagonia, the city is the largest and most populous in the low valley of the Chubut River, wi ...
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Chubut Province
Chubut ( es, Provincia del Chubut, ; cy, Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes rang ...
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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 ...
, named after the Argentine Navy Admiral and aviator
Marcos Andrés Zar. The airport serves the cities of Trelew and
Rawson.
The airport is northeast of Trelew and from Rawson, the capital of
Chubut Province
Chubut ( es, Provincia del Chubut, ; cy, Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes rang ...
. It has a passenger terminal and has parking for 128 cars. It is operated by London Supply.
The Trelew Almirante Zar Naval Air Base is on the airport, and has an
Argentine Naval Aviation
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squadron flying
P-3 Orions.
History
This airport replaced an airport noted as a pivotal site during the
Trelew massacre
The Trelew Massacre was a mass execution of 16 political prisoners, militants of different Peronist and left organizations, in Rawson prison by the military dictatorship of Argentina. The prisoners were recaptured after an escape attempt and sub ...
. On August 15, 1972, 110 prisoners escaped from the Rawson jail and tried to hijack an
Austral Líneas Aéreas BAC One-Eleven en route to
Comodoro Rivadavia, in order to escape to
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
and from there to
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
. Their plans failed, and 19 of them were killed by the army on August 22, at 3:30 AM.
Airlines and destinations
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Transport in Argentina
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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
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References
External links
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