Aeroparque Jorge Newbery

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Aeroparque Jorge Newbery airport is the city of Buenos Aires.

It is located in the Palermo district, right on the banks of the Río de la Plata. Its IATA code is AEP, the ICAO code is SABE. The IATA code for collecting the domestic and international airport of Buenos Aires is BUE.

( † 1914 * 1875) to the airport after the Argentine aviation pioneer and engineer Jorge Newbery was named.

The " Aeroparque " as it is usually called, is mainly used for domestic flights. He has in the Argentine air transport, the function of the major hub: many inbound links to see a change at this airport before. But international flights to neighboring countries will be carried out.

The airport has struggled since the 1980s with a chronic overload, which can not be solved by an extension because there are major roads around the airport as well as residential areas. In the 1990s was therefore considered to expand the airport by the application of an artificial island on the Río de la Plata, a so-called Aeroisla. However, this project was just in the sand like the proposal to close the airport entirely and instead further outside Ezeiza airport to greatly expand the.

On 31 August 1999 there was a major plane crash. A Boeing 737-200 crashed shortly after take off from the Jorge Newbery Airport on. 65 people lost their lives.

The end of 2010, the airport was closed for several weeks and overhauled. Especially the start and runway has been renewed it.