San Rafael Airport (Chile)
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San Rafael Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Los Andes | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,457 ft / 749 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°48′50″S 70°38′48″W / 32.81389°S 70.64667°W | ||||||||||
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  LOB Location of San Rafael Airport in Chile | |||||||||||
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| Source: Landings.com,[1] Google Maps.[2] GCM[3] | |||||||||||
San Rafael Airport (Spanish: Aeródromo de San Rafael de Los Andes) (IATA: LOB, ICAO: SCAN) is an airport serving Los Andes, a city in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. The airport is 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west-northwest of the city.
It is the base of operations for the Latin American Aviation Training flight school.[4][5]
The airport is within a mountain basin, and there is distant mountainous terrain in all quadrants. The Tabon VOR-DME (Ident: TBN) is located 11.5 nautical miles (21.3 km) west-southwest of the airport.[6]
