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Jorge Newbery Airpark, known locally as Aeroparque, is Argentina's busiest airport and the principal hub for domestic air travel, sited on reclaimed land beside the Río de la Plata just northwest of downtown Buenos Aires. Its single paved runway, tight urban setting and full ATC service make it a distinctive and demanding destination for any simulator pilot flying into the capital.
Jorge Newbery Airpark, widely known simply as Aeroparque, is an international airport serving Buenos Aires and functioning as the country's main domestic hub, used by Aerolíneas Argentinas, Flybondi and JetSmart Argentina among others. It is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 S.A. and occupies a compact 138-hectare site built on reclaimed ground beside the Río de la Plata, giving it a striking waterfront location right on the edge of the city centre. For a virtual pilot it offers a taxing approach into a busy, controlled airport hemmed in by the city and the river, with a single runway handling a high volume of movements.
The airport lies about 2 kilometres northwest of downtown Buenos Aires, in the Palermo neighbourhood, directly on the shoreline of the Río de la Plata. It is a controlled aerodrome with its own approach, tower, ground and clearance delivery frequencies, reflecting its status as the busiest airport in Argentina. A small Argentine Air Force base sits at the eastern end of the airport, a legacy of a facility built there in 1965.
The field has a single physical runway, 13/31, a hard-surfaced strip that is lit along its length. Runway 13 is 6,875 feet long and equipped with an ILS, while runway 31 is 6,442 feet long. Field elevation is 16 feet.
Aeroparque provides full air traffic control services. Approach can be contacted on 120.6 MHz, with ATIS broadcast on 127.6 MHz. Clearance delivery is available on 129.3 MHz, Ground on 121.9 MHz, and Tower on 118.85 MHz. Runway 13 is served by an ILS for instrument approaches.
The airport's origins date to a proposal by Mayor Carlos Noel in 1925, followed by years of feasibility studies and zoning disputes; an early plan for an island airport linked by causeway to Avenida General Paz was submitted in 1938 before a reclaimed wetland site closer to downtown, filled in 1916, was chosen instead. Designed by Aeronautics Secretariat engineer Víctor Acuña in 1945, the airfield was inaugurated in 1947 as Aeroparque 17 de Octubre and began operations in January 1948 with a single 1,000 metre runway, serving as the main hub for domestic flights and services to Uruguay. Its first terminal opened in 1951, by which time the runway had been extended to 1,550 metres. Following the 1955 coup against President Juan Perón, the airport was renamed in honour of aviation pioneer Jorge Newbery, and was re-inaugurated in 1960 after the main runway was expanded to 2,070 metres and a new terminal added. The Argentine Air Force established a small base at the eastern end of the field in 1965, the site where President Isabel Perón was formally deposed during the March 1976 coup. A new Aerolíneas Argentinas terminal opened in 1981, and the airport was privatised in 1998 under Aeropuertos Argentina 2000. The runway was extended by a further 180 metres in 2007, and work began in 2009 to increase separation between the runway's eastern end and the adjacent coast highway. New terminals were built between 2011 and 2014, and during the COVID-19 pandemic the runway was further expanded to accommodate wide-body aircraft such as the Airbus A330.
Aeroparque functions today as Argentina's principal domestic air hub, serving as a base for Aerolíneas Argentinas, Flybondi and JetSmart Argentina, alongside services from Avianca, Gol Linhas Aéreas, LATAM Brasil and others connecting to destinations across Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and beyond. It remains a busy, city-centre airport whose single runway and constrained site make it operationally intensive for both real-world and simulated operations.