General Enrique Mosconi International Airport

General Enrique Mosconi International Airport is an international airport in the Chubut Province, Argentina, serving Comodoro Rivadavia. The airfield is located north of the city, covers an area of, and has a terminal.
The airport is the main hub of Líneas Aéreas del Estado.
It was named after Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi, who was a military engineer for the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum surveyance and exploitation in Argentina.

History

It was built in 1929, and was officially inaugurated with an Aeroposta Argentina flight between Bahía Blanca and Comodoro Rivadavia vía San Antonio Oeste and Trelew on 1 November 1929. The new terminal was constructed in 1952. The airport was named after the Argentine military engineer Enrique Mosconi.
Since the early 2000s, the airport has been operated by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000.
The airport previously served international flights to Chile, including to Balmaceda and Santiago. which was operated by Ladeco but the service was suspended by following year.
On 22 November 2017, the longest non-stop flight ever made by the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom landed at the airport. The flight was part of the RAF's support in the search for the ARA San Juan (S-42) submarine which had disappeared days before. This flight also marked the first time an RAF airplane had landed at the airport since the Falklands War era.

1956: An Argentine Army Douglas C-54A, tail number CTA-4, was damaged beyond economical repair at the airport, under unspecified circumstances. There were no reported fatalities.
8 April 2004: An Argentine Air Force Twin Otter, registration T-84, force-landed off the airport. Despite the aircraft sustaining substantial damage, there were no reported fatalities among the six occupants.