Comandante Espora Airport
Comandante Espora Airport
Comandante Espora Airport (IATA: BHI, ICAO: SAZB), also known as Bahía Blanca Airport, is a domestic airport in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, which is served by Aerolíneas Argentinas and LADE. The airport shares its runways and its name with Comandante Espora Air Naval Base (Base Aeronaval Comandante Espora), named after Tomás Espora, a naval officer who fought in the 1810-25 Argentine War of Independence. Comandante Espora is the main base of the Argentine Navy‘s air arm, the Argentine Naval Aviation. The base was given the identifier BACE by the navy.
Location
38.725°S, 62.169°O · 75 m s. n. m. (246 ft)
General data
Runways · 3
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 3
Tower
Ground
Approach
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
History
Comandante Espora Air Naval Base was built in the 1930s to replace the old Puerto Belgrano Air Naval Base, which could not support the more modern aircraft that the Argentine Naval Aviation was adding. The new base was built in grounds close to the existing Bahía Blanca Airfield (Spanish: Aeródromo Civil de Bahía Blanca, also known as Villa Harding Green), located approximately 5 kilometers from Bahía Blanca and 25 kilometers from Puerto Belgrano Naval Base. The new airfield was opened on 16 June 1939.
Between 1945 and 1964 it was the location of the Naval Aviation School, and in 1970 the headquarters of Naval Aviation Command were relocated to Comandante Espora.
From 1968 the airport was opened to civil and commercial traffic replacing the old civil airstrip at Villa Harding Green. The installations and runway were expanded and in 1972 were released to the commercial traffic linking the Argentine South. In September 1977, the runways were extended to allow aircraft of Boeing 767 size.
Airlines operating here · 2
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026
APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Comandante Espora Airport (BHI). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHI
MLA
“Comandante Espora Airport (BHI).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHI. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Comandante Espora Airport (BHI).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHI.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Comandante Espora Airport (BHI). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHI (Accessed: 23 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Comandante Espora Airport (BHI)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHI},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/BHI}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}Wikipedia
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