Chaitén Airfield (Spanish: Aeródromo Chaitén, (IATA: WCH, ICAO: SCTN)) was an airport serving Chaitén, a town in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. The airport was damaged and closed after the 2008 eruption of Chaitén Volcano.
Chaitén Airfield | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Closed | ||||||||||
| Serves | Chaitén, Chile | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 13 ft / 4 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°55′58″S 72°41′58″W / 42.93278°S 72.69944°W | ||||||||||
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  Location of Chaitén Airfield in Chile | |||||||||||
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A provisional airstrip was established 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) away at the hamlet of Santa Bárbara, by widening 700 metres (2,300 ft) of the Carretera Austral highway.[2]
In 2013, construction began on Nuevo Chaitén Airport, which then assumed the ICAO and IATA codes of the closed airport.[3] The new airport is 18 kilometres (11 mi) northwest of Chaitén.
