Chaitén Airfield (, ) was an airport serving Chaitén, a town in the Los Lagos Region of Chile. The airport was damaged and closed after the 2008 eruption of Chaitén Volcano.
A provisional airstrip was established away at the hamlet of Santa Bárbara, by widening of the Carretera Austral highway.
In 2013, construction began on Nuevo Chaitén Airport, which then assumed the ICAO and IATA codes of the closed airport. The new airport is northwest of Chaitén.
See also
Transport in Chile List of airports in Chile
References
External links Accident history for Chaitén Airport at Aviation Safety Network