Chame Airport | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Location | Panama | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 141 ft / 43 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 8°35′20″N 79°53′23″W / 8.58889°N 79.88972°W | ||||||||||
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Chame Airport ( LID: MP24) is an airport serving Chame District, a district in the Panamá Oeste Province of Panama.
The airport is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) inland from the Gulf of Panama. There is distant rising terrain to the north.
The Taboga Island non-directional beacon (Ident: TBG) and VOR-DME (Ident: TBG) are 22.9 nautical miles (42.4 km) east-northeast of the airport. [4] [5]
During World War II the facility was used as an auxiliary military airfield (Chame Airdrome, Chame Airfield #1) of Howard Field as part of the defense of the Panama Canal. Assigned units were the USAAF 53d Fighter Group, 14th Fighter Squadron (2 January-24 November 1942) and 28th Fighter Squadron (10 November 1942 – 25 September 1945) flying P-39 Airacobras, AT-6, BT-13, and UC-78s. [6] [7]
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