UPGRADING OF AIR FACILITIES PRES CARLOS IBANES DEL CAMPO AIRFIELD, SOUTHER CHILE (SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 8, 1982
• Content Type: REPORT

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(c) NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION CENTER
IN ANTOFAGASTA BUT PERIODICALLY AP.E DEPLOYED TO PRES CARLOS
IBANES DEL CAD~O AIRFIELD. OTHER AIR ORDER OF BATTLE PRESENT
INCLUDED THREE EMB-110, TWO CASA C-212, TWO DHC-6, THREE T-33 TWO
PROBABLY DERELICT), AND ONE UH-1.
(S/D) THE AIRFIELD'S AIR DEFENSE CAPABILITIES HAVE
BEEN STRENGTI~DIID BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF 12 ANTIAIRCRAFT HEAVY MACHINE GUN
POSITIONS AT THE NORTI-MiEST END OF THE FACILITY. AT LEAST TEN
OF THESE POSITIONS WERE OCCUPIED. ALSO, AT LEAST EIGHT PROBABLE WEAPONS
POSITIONS ~tiERE CONSTRUCTED IN OT}IER LOCATIONS AT THE AIRFIELD.
(S/D) THE AIRFIELD CONSISTS OF THREE INTERSECTING RUNWAYS (A 3,200-X 60-
METER NORTHEAST/SOUTHWEST ASPHALT RUNWAY, A 2,000-X 45-METER
NORTHWEST/SOUTHEAST ASPHALT RUNWAY, AND A 1,600-X 45-DIETER
NORTH-NORTHEAST/SOUTH-SOUTHWEST CONCRETE RUNWAY), A MILITAPY SUPPORT AREA,
A CIVILIAN SUPPORT AREA, TWO COD7NIUNICATION SITES, AND A POL STORAGE
FACILITY. BETLVEEN 1979 AND 1981 THE AIRFIELD WAS GRADUALLY UPGRADED TO
SUPPORT FIGHTER AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS BY TfIE CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE
HARDSTANDS. HIGH SPEED (ALEP.T) RAMPS, AND HARDENED AIRCRAFT SHELTERS.
THREE HANGARETTES HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED ON THE
HARDSTANDS AT THF. IND OF THE HIGH SPEED (ALERT) RAMPS. ALSO A NEW FIGHTER
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8 JULY 1982
1. S/D) SIGNIFICANCE: A STRENGTIIFNING OF AIR DEFENSE CAPABILITIES, THE
CONTINUED U- G~ OF AIRFIELD OPERATIONS FACILITIES, AND AN INCREASE IN
THE DEPLOYDIENT OF FIGHTER AIRCRAFT IS EVIDENT AT THIS AIRFIELD NEAR PUNTA
ARENAS IN SOUTHERN CHILE.
2. (S/D) REMARKS: THIS JOINT MILITARY/CIVILIAN AIRFIELD IS APPROXID9ATELY 82
NNI WEST OAF E~CHILE/ARGENTINE BORDER AND APPROXIh1ATELY 145 NM NORTHWEST
OF THE BEAGLE CHANNEL (GRAPHIC 1 OF 2). SIX F-5E/F (TIGER)
FIGHTER AIRCRAFT AND TEN A-37B DRAGONFLY) GROUND ATTACK AIRCRAFT (TVdO IN
FLIGHT) 1VERE AT THE AIRFIELD. THE LAST AVAILABLE
COVERAGE OF THE AREA, Ttii10 F-5E/F AND FIVE A-37B WERE PRESENT. TfiE CHILEAN
4TH AIR BRIGADE N1ITH A REPORTED STRENGTH OF 15 A-37B IS i10RDfALLY BASED
HERE. CHILEAN F-SE/F AIRCRAFT ARE IiOME-BASED AT CERRO DMORENO AIRFIELD (BE
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AIRCRAFT DISPERSAL AREA IS BEING CONSTRUCTED IN THE NORTHEAST SECTOR OF
THE AIRFIELD (GRAPHIC 2 OF 2). ONE IiANGARE'ITE, AND THE FOUNDATIONS FOR
ANOTHER EiANGARETTE AND FOR TWO SUPPORT BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE
TWO HARDENED AIRCRAFT SHELTERS ALREADY PRESENT IN THIS AREA. TI~{E
CONTINUED EXPANSION OF AIRCRAFT PARKING FACILITIES IS EVIDEPTT BY THE
GROUND CLEARING FOR ADDITIONAL HANGARETTES AND THE PRESENCE OF OVER 100
PRE-FABRICATED, ARCItED-ROOF IfANGARETTE SECTIONS ALSO IN THIS DISPERSAL
AREA.
3. (S)
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NPIC/IEG (7/82)
8 JULY 1982
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