CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS PUNTA HUETE AIRFIELD, NICARAGUA (SANITIZED)

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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 2, 1984
• Content Type: MISC

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2 MARCH 1984
CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS
PUNTA HUETE AIRFIELD, NICARAGUA SWN/NOFORN)
1. SIGNIFICANCE: RECENT CONSTRUCTION HAS RESULTED IN
SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS AT PUNTA HUETE AIRFIELD. (SWN)
2. REMARKS: CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE RECENTLY ON
THE UN AY, THE PARALLEL TAXIWAY, AND THE AIRCRAFT
DISPERSAL AREA. CONCRETE PAVING ON THE NEW RUNWAY BEGAN
IN MID-FEBRUARY. A 358 METER SEGMENT OF
FINISHED SURFACE WAS IN PLACE NEAR THE CENTER OF THE AREA
GRADED FOR THE RUNWAY. THE NEW SURFACE WAS APPROXIMATELY
22 METERS IN WIDTH WITH BASE MATERIAL LAID FOR EVENTUAL
WIDENING TO AT LEAST 36 METERS. GROUND SCARRING
INDICATES THE RUNWAY (INCLUDING POSSIBLE OVERRUNS), WILL
BE FROM 3,100 TO 3,800 METERS IN LENGTH. PROBABLE
CROSSOVER CONNECTING LINKS HAD BEEN GRADED NEAR BOTH ENDS
OF TILE RUNWAY CLEARING IN EARLY JANUARY. (SWN/NOFORN)
THE CONCRETE PARALLEL TAXIWAY WAS EXTENDED BY 229 METERS
IN JANUARY. THIS TAXIWAY, 2,483 BY 19-METERS, COULD BE
USED AS AN ALTERNATE RUNWAY. IN FEBRUARY, SEVEN AIRCRAFT
PARKING POSITIONS (EACH 39-BY 29-METERS) WERE ADDED TO
THE AIRCRAFT PARKING APRON ALONG THE TAXIWAY.
(SWN/NOFORN)
TWELVE REVETTED AIRCRAFT HARDSTANDS, IN GROUPS OF FOUR,
HAVE BEEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT THE NORTH END OF THE
DISPERSAL TAXIWAY SINCE EARLY JANUARY. THESE HARDSTANDS
ARE IN ADDITION TO THE FOUR AIRCRAFT HARDSTANDS
CONSTRUCTED AT THE SOUTH END OF THE DISPERSAL TAXIWAY IN
SEPTEMBER 1983. THE NEW HARDSTANDS, APPROXIMATELY 13
METERS IN WIDTH, ARE IN A MID-STAGE OF CONSTRUCTION.
(SWN/NOFORN)
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THIS AIRFIELD, ONE OF THE LARGEST IN CENTRAL AMERICA,
WILL PROBABLY SERVE AS THE PRINCIPAL MILITARY AIRFIELD IN
NICARAGUA WHFN C(7MPi FTFD . (SWN) 25X1
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