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Piloto Civil N. Fernández Airport (ICAO SAWG, IATA RGL) serves the city of Rio Gallegos in Santa Cruz Province, at the southern end of Argentine Patagonia. It offers a single long, hard-surfaced runway with an ILS approach, making it a straightforward destination for simulator pilots flying in this remote southern region.
Piloto Civil N. Fernández Airport is the airport serving Rio Gallegos, a city in Santa Cruz Province in far southern Argentina. It is built around a single very long paved runway and is equipped with an instrument landing system, reflecting its role as a scheduled airline gateway to this remote part of Patagonia. For a simulator pilot, the field offers an interesting instrument approach into a windswept southern location with generous runway length.
The airport lies at Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, at coordinates -51.6089, -69.3128 and an elevation of 56 feet. Published frequencies include an approach/tower service (119.1 MHz) and a separate control frequency (124.7 MHz, described as TCA/CON), indicating the field sits within controlled airspace with an approach control service protecting arriving and departing traffic.
The airport has a single physical runway, 07/25, measuring 11,374 feet with a hard surface. The runway is lit, and an ILS is provided for the approach to runway 25.
Radio services include approach and tower on 119.1 MHz (APP), an ATIS-type frequency on 116.7 MHz, a radio/RDO frequency on 122.1 MHz, and a control frequency on 124.7 MHz (TCA/CON). An ILS is available to support instrument approaches to runway 25.
Piloto Civil N. Fernández Airport continues to operate as an international airport handling scheduled airline service for Rio Gallegos and the surrounding Santa Cruz Province region.