Torrejón de Ardoz Air Base
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| Type | Military/Civil | |||||||||
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| Owner | Spanish Air Force-AENA | |||||||||
| City | Torrejón de Ardóz, Madrid, Spain | |||||||||
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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.
FlightGear scenery
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.