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El Calafate - Commander Armando Tola International Airport (SAWC/FTE) serves the Patagonian town of El Calafate in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, acting as the principal gateway for visitors bound for the Perito Moreno Glacier and the surrounding ice-field region. It offers a single long hard-surfaced runway equipped with an ILS, making it a straightforward destination for both airline traffic and visiting simulator pilots.
SAWC lies close to the town of El Calafate in the far south of Argentina's Santa Cruz Province, within Argentine Patagonia. It is classed as a medium airport with scheduled airline service, functioning as the main air gateway for travellers heading to the nearby glaciers, and its single runway with an ILS approach makes it a useful and visually striking VFR or IFR destination for simulator pilots exploring the region.
The airport sits in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, in the vicinity of El Calafate town, in the sparsely populated Patagonian interior near the great southern ice-field and its associated glaciers.
The airport has a single physical runway, 07/25, surfaced in hard material and measuring 8338 feet in length. Runway 25 is equipped with an ILS, giving instrument approach capability to that end of the runway.
Approach control operates on 119.95 MHz, which also serves as the tower frequency (APP/TWR). Ground movements are handled on 121.8 MHz. The runway 25 end is served by an ILS for instrument approaches.
SAWC operates as a medium airport with scheduled airline service, functioning as the principal air link for the town of El Calafate and the wider glacier-tourism area of southern Santa Cruz Province.
