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Eulogio Sánchez Airport () , also known as Tobalaba Airport, is an airport in La Reina, an eastern suburb of
Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...
,
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
. It is two-thirds owned by the ''Club Aéreo de Santiago'' and one-third owned by the ''Club Aéreo de
Carabineros de Chile The () are the Chilean national law enforcement gendarmerie, who have jurisdiction over the entire national territory of the Republic of Chile. Created in 1927, their mission is to maintain order and enforce the laws of Chile. They reported to ...
''. Also, it holds the headquarters of Airbus Helicopters Chile S.A. The airport consists of 120 acres on the eastern edge of the Santiago metropolitan area. It was constructed in 1954 and named for the then-president of the ''Club Aéreo de Santiago'', Eulogio Sánchez Errazuriz (1903-1956). Its taxiways, runway and fuel platform are the only public use infrastructure areas at the airport. It is home to about 100 aircraft, a restaurant and a public park next to the main entrance in Alcalde Fernando Castillo Velasco Avenue.Eulogio Sánchez Errazuriz
Runway 19 has an additional
displaced threshold A displaced threshold or DTHR is a runway threshold located at a point other than the physical beginning or end of the runway. The portion of the runway behind a displaced threshold may be used for takeoff in either direction and landings from t ...
.


Operations

Eulogio Sánchez Airport is home to Club Aéreo de Santiago, Club Aéreo de Carabineros, Airbus Helicopters Chile S.A. and more, while organisms such as PDI (Policía de Investigaciones)
Ecocopter
RomeoMike, Aeromet and SumaAir see a lot of operations in and out of Tobalaba.


See also

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Transport in Chile Transport in Chile is mostly by road. The far south of the country is not directly connected to central Chile by road without travelling through Argentina, and water transport also plays a part there. The railways were historically important in C ...
* List of airports in Chile


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DGAC IFIS

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* * {{authority control Transport in Santiago, Chile Airports in Santiago Metropolitan Region