| Dajabón Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Dajabón, Dominican Republic | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 170 ft / 52 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°33′55″N71°40′30″W / 19.56528°N 71.67500°W Coordinates: 19°33′55″N71°40′30″W / 19.56528°N 71.67500°W | ||||||||||
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Dajabón National Airport is an airport that serves Dajabón, the capital of Dajabón Province in the western Dominican Republic. The airport is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the border with Haiti.
Dajabón is the capital city of the Dajabón province in the Dominican Republic, located on the border with Haiti. It is a market town with a population of about 40,000, north of the Cordillera Central mountain range.
Dajabón is a province of the Dominican Republic, on the border with Haiti. Its capital city is also called Dajabón.
The Dominican Republic is a country located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that are shared by two sovereign states. The Dominican Republic is the second-largest Caribbean nation by area at 48,671 square kilometers (18,792 sq mi), and third by population with approximately 10 million people, of which approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo, the capital city.
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The Monte Cristi non-directional beacon (Ident: MTC) is located 18.1 nautical miles (33.5 km) north of the airport. The Cap Haitien VOR (Ident: HCN) is located 30.8 nautical miles (57.0 km) west-northwest of Dajabón Airport. [3] [4]
A non-directional (radio) beacon (NDB) is a radio transmitter at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. As the name implies, the signal transmitted does not include inherent directional information, in contrast to other navigational aids such as low frequency radio range, VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) and TACAN. NDB signals follow the curvature of the Earth, so they can be received at much greater distances at lower altitudes, a major advantage over VOR. However, NDB signals are also affected more by atmospheric conditions, mountainous terrain, coastal refraction and electrical storms, particularly at long range.
Very High Frequency (VHF) Omni-Directional Range (VOR) is a type of short-range radio navigation system for aircraft, enabling aircraft with a receiving unit to determine its position and stay on course by receiving radio signals transmitted by a network of fixed ground radio beacons. It uses frequencies in the very high frequency (VHF) band from 108.00 to 117.95 MHz. Developed in the United States beginning in 1937 and deployed by 1946, VOR is the standard air navigational system in the world, used by both commercial and general aviation. By 2000 there were about 3,000 VOR stations around the world including 1,033 in the US, reduced to 967 by 2013 with more stations being decommissioned with the widespread adoption of GPS.
