Chame Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Location | Panama | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 141 ft / 43 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 8°35′20″N79°53′23″W / 8.58889°N 79.88972°W /8.58889; -79.88972 | ||||||||||
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  MP24 Location in Panama | |||||||||||
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| Sources: WAD[1] GCM[2] Google Maps[3] | |||||||||||
Chame Airport (LID: MP24) is an airport servingChame District, a district in thePanamá Oeste Province ofPanama.
The airport is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) inland from theGulf of Panama. There is distant rising terrain to the north.
The Taboga Islandnon-directional beacon (Ident:TBG) andVOR-DME (Ident:TBG) are 22.9 nautical miles (42.4 km) east-northeast of the airport.[4][5]
DuringWorld War II the facility was used as an auxiliary military airfield (Chame Airdrome, Chame Airfield #1) ofHoward Field as part of the defense of thePanama Canal. Assigned units were the USAAF53d Fighter Group,14th Fighter Squadron (2 January-24 November 1942) and28th Fighter Squadron (10 November 1942 – 25 September 1945) flyingP-39 Airacobras, AT-6, BT-13, and UC-78s.[6][7]
This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research AgencyPreviously: Panama Canal Air Force (1940-1941); Caribbean Air Force (1941-1942) | |||||||||||||||
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