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Jaime González Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Serves
  
Cienfuegos, Cuba

02/20
  
2,400

Code
  
CFG

Operator
  
ECASA

Elevation AMSL
  
31 m / 102 ft

Address
  
Cienfuegos, Cuba

Elevation
  
31 m

Jaime González Airport

Website
  
cienfuegos.airportcuba.net

Similar
  
Hotel Jagua, Perlavision, Universid de Cienfueg, Hotel Club Amigo Rancho L, Universid de Ciencias

Jaime González Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Jaime González) (IATA: CFG, ICAO: MUCF) is an international airport that serves Cienfuegos, a city on the southern coast of Cuba, and capital of the province of Cienfuegos.

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Facilities

The airport is at an elevation of 31 m (102 ft) above mean sea level; it has one runway designated 02/20 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,400 m × 45 m (7,874 ft × 148 ft).

Cienfuegos Air Base

The airport is an inactive Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces air base:

  • 3684 Helicopter Regiment - Mil Mi-8TB transport helicopters, Mil Mi-24D attack/transport helicopter and Mil Mi-35 helicopter gunship/transport
  • World War II

    During the war the base was set up to use a non-descript number for postal operations. They used the Fleet Post Office, Atlantic located in New York, New York with the address: 317 FPO NY.

    The US Navy code word for Cienfuegos during the war was ODOP.

    References

    Jaime González Airport Wikipedia