Junín Airport () was a domestic airport serving
Junín, a city in the
Buenos Aires Province
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of Argentina. It is located north of the city.
Current aerial imagery shows the runway is marked closed.
Google Earth Historical Imagery (8/31/2009), (9/9/2013) show the closure was sometime after August 2009.
The Junin
VOR and
non-directional beacon
A non-directional beacon (NDB) or non-directional radio beacon is a radio beacon which does not include directional information. Radio beacons are radio transmitters at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. NDB are i ...
(Idents: NIN) are located on the field.
Historical facts
World gliding championship in 1963:
http://www.volaravela.com.ar/mundial.htm?i=1
Accidents and incidents
*17 May 1948: A
FAMA Viking 615,
tail number LV-AFL, crashed on landing at the airport while performing a test flight, catching fire. There were no reported fatalities but the aircraft was
written off.
See also
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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.
Airports
ICAO location identifiers link to airport page at Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos' (ORSNA), where availableMap of airports.
Airport names shown in bol ...
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Junín Airport closed*
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Defunct airports in Argentina
Airports in Buenos Aires Province
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