Antoine de Saint Exupéry Airport (Spanish: ''Aeropuerto Antoine de Saint Exupéry'', ) is an airport serving
San Antonio Oeste
San Antonio Oeste is a port city in the Argentine province of Río Negro, and head of the department of San Antonio.
The town is bordered by its sister communities of San Antonio Este, to the east, and Las Grutas, to the southwest. Discovered by ...
, a city in the
Río Negro Province of
Argentina. The airport is named after the French author-aviator
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (, , ; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of s ...
.
Facilities
The terminal building is very similar in architectural design to others in the
Patagonian region, basically of a simple, plain design with appropriately sized common areas, which provides an acceptable level of service for the area's normal traffic. However the terminal building also features a mural by
Uruguayan artist
Carlos Páez Vilaró in its main hall, painted in December 1989.
[Visiting Antoine de Saint Exupéry Airport](_blank)
Aeropuertos Argentinos website.
The airport is inland from the
San Matías Gulf. Southeast approach and departure may be over the water. The runway has greater than unpaved overruns on each end. The San Antonio Oeste
non-directional beacon (Ident: SAN) is located on the field.
History
San Antonio Oeste's airport was renamed after the French writer-aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who frequently surveyed routes in the country as the director of
Aeroposta Argentina :''This article contains machine-translated text from the Spanish Wikipedia article Aeroposta Argentina S.A. You can help by improving this Spanish to English translation.''
Aeroposta Argentina S.A. was an early pioneering airline in Argentina ...
, the company that created a stopover airport at that location en route to
Comodoro Rivadavia
Comodoro Rivadavia () is a city in the Patagonian province of Chubut in southern Argentina, located on the San Jorge Gulf, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, at the foot of the Chenque Hill. Comodoro Rivadavia is the most important city of the San ...
. A small museum exhibit was created in the airport's terminal building honoring its origins. It came into being on October 31, 1929, when a flight route began between Comodoro Rivadavia and
Bahia Blanca, with stops at San Antonio Oeste and
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, wit ...
. The following day Aeroposta Argentina inaugurated its regular service to the airport.
Due to a lack of facility, runway, and airport maintenance for over 20 years, commercial air services were discontinued to the airport in 2009. Currently only the local flying club and some private flights use the facility.
Simulacro en un aeropuerto que casi no funciona
, Rionegro.com.ar, August 10, 2011
See also
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* Transport in Argentina
* List of airports in Argentina
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Antoine de Saint Exupéry Airport
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Airports in Río Negro Province
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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