Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport (, ) is an airport in

Trelew Trelew (, from "town" and the name of the founder, Lewis Jones) is a city in the eastern part of the Chubut Province of Argentina, 21km away from the coast. Located in Patagonia, the city is the largest and most populous in the low valley of the ...

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, 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

. 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

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squadron flying

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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 leftist organizations, in Rawson prison by the military dictatorship of Argentina. The prisoners were recaptured after an escape attempt and s ...

. On August 15, 1972, 110 prisoners escaped from the Rawson jail and tried to hijack an

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en route to

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, in order to escape to

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and from there to

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. Their plans failed, and 19 of them were killed by the army on August 22, at 3:30 AM.

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