Junín Airport

Airport in Argentina

JNI

Location of the airport in Argentina

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
Closed

Sources: ORSNA,^[1] WAD^[2] Google Maps^[3]

Junín Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Junín) (IATA: JNI, ICAO: SAAJ) was a domestic airport serving Junín, a city in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. It is located 2 kilometres (1 mi) north of the city.^[1]

Current aerial imagery shows the runway is marked closed.^[4] Google Earth Historical Imagery (8/31/2009), (9/9/2013) show the closure was sometime after August 2009.^[5]

The Junin VOR and non-directional beacon (Idents: NIN) are located on the field.^[6]^[7]

Historical facts

World gliding championship in 1963: http://www.volaravela.com.ar/mundial.htm?i=1

Accidents and incidents

17 May 1948: A FAMA Viking 615, tail number LV-AFL, crashed on landing at the airport while performing a test flight, catching fire. There were no reported fatalities but the aircraft was written off.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "Aeropuerto de Junín" [Junín Airport]. Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos (ORSNA) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
^ "Airport information for SAAJ". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006.
^ "Junín Airport". Google Maps. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
^ "Runway closed". Google Maps. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
^ Google Earth Historical Imagery (8/31/2009), (9/9/2013)
^ "Junin NDB". Our Airports. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
^ "Junin VOR". Our Airports. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
^ Accident description for LV-AFL at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 20 March 2012.