Esperanza Field

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Esperanza Airport
Peñuela Airport
Summary
Airport type Public
Serves Valverde Province,
Dominican Republic
Location Esperanza / Mao
Elevation  AMSL 100 m / 328 ft
Coordinates 19°35′03″N070°57′32″W / 19.58417°N 70.95889°W / 19.58417; -70.95889
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
600 1,969 Gravel
Source: AIP Republica Dominicana [1]

Esperanza Airport or Peñuela Airport( ICAO : MDES) [1] is located in Esperanza, a municipality of the Valverde province in the Dominican Republic. It is mostly used for private aviation, and in cases for some charters from cities within the country.

ICAO airport code four-letter code designating many airports around the world

The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.

Esperanza, Dominican Republic Place in Valverde, Dominican Republic

Esperanza is a municipality (municipio) of the Valverde province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there are four municipal districts : Boca de Mao, Jicomé, Maizal and Paradero.

Valverde Province Province in Dominican Republic

Valverde is a province of the Dominican Republic. It was split from Santiago Province in 1959. It is in the northwestern part of the country. Its capital city is Santa Cruz de Mao.

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Facilities

Peñuela Airport resides at an elevation of 100 metres (328 ft) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 09/27 with a gravel surface measuring 600 by 13 metres (1,969 ft × 43 ft). [1]

Elevation Height of a geographic location above a fixed reference point

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface . The term elevation is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit, and depth is used for points below the surface.

Runway Area of surface used by aircraft to takeoff from and land on

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface.

Gravel mix of crumbled stone (grain size range = 2-63 mm according to ISO 14688)

Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel is classified by particle size range and includes size classes from granule- to boulder-sized fragments. In the Udden-Wentworth scale gravel is categorized into granular gravel and pebble gravel. ISO 14688 grades gravels as fine, medium, and coarse with ranges 2 mm to 6.3 mm to 20 mm to 63 mm. One cubic metre of gravel typically weighs about 1,800 kg.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "AIP-Republica Dominicana: AD 1.3-11" ( PDF, 129  KB ). AIS-Republica Dominicana. Effective 17 January 2008.Check date values in: |date= (help)

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