Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base

Torrejón de Ardóz Airbase
IATA TOJ			ICAO LETO
Type			Military/Civil
Owner			Spanish Air Force-AENA
City			Torrejón de Ardóz, Madrid, Spain
Runways
Runway		Length		Material
05/23		3658 m		Asphalt
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Torrejón de Ardóz Air Base (often abreviated to as Torrejón or LETO) is a Spanish airport. LETO is the nearest air base to Madrid Barajas Int. airport and it is sharing facilities with INTA National Institute for Aerospace Technology also is a NATO base. It operates military, firefighting, helicopter and civil flights.

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The airport has a range of custom scenery building models available (links below) including semicircular hangars, static aircraft such as C-130 Hercules, F-15 and KC-135 and generic USAF type tower control models. Surrounding area anthenas have been placed accurattely. It is a nice area to fly over multiplayer around Madrid.

Activities

Military

• 43th Firefighting Airforce Group with CL-215 T aircrafts
• 45th Airforce Group with Falcon 900, Boeing 707, Falcon 20 y A310 aircrafts
• Wing # 12 with F.18 and Dornier 27 aircrafts
• Rescue Coordination Center Madrid (RCC Madrid)
• Aeroespacial Observation System Center (CESAEROB)
• Aerial Intelligent Center(CIA) Boeing 707, C-212 Aviocar and Falcon 20 aircrafts
• Logistics Center for Armaments and Experimentation (CLAEX)
• Quartermaster Logistics Center (CLOIN)
• Air Traffic Operations Squadron Madrid (ECAO-1)
• Aeronautical Technical School (THIS)
• Central Group Command and Control (GRUCEMAC)
• Medical Unit Air Deployment Support (UMAAD-Madrid)
• Aeroevacuación Medical Unit (UMAER)

Civil

Comercial

• Gestair

Private

Runways

LETO has one runway. The airbase-runway is positioned in the Henares river corridor southwest-northeast oriented.

Runway 05-23

Runway 05-23 is 3.658x60 meters long/wide. The 23 end is equipped with ILS Cat I, and 109.50 is the navigation frequency.

External links

• Airport Diagram
• Torrejón Air Base Wikipedia