Almirante Marco Andres Zar Airport
Almirante Marco Andres Zar Airport
Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport (Welsh: Maes Awyr Almirante Marcos A. Zar, Spanish: Aeropuerto Almirante Marcos A. Zar) (IATA: REL, ICAO: SAVT) is an airport in Trelew, Chubut Province, Argentina, named after the Argentine Navy Admiral and aviator Marcos Andrés Zar. The airport serves the cities of Trelew and Rawson. The airport is 3 kilometres (2 mi) northeast of Trelew and 17 kilometres (11 mi) from Rawson, the capital of Chubut Province. It has a 3,500 square metres (38,000 sq ft) passenger terminal and has parking for 128 cars. It is operated by London Supply. The Trelew Almirante Zar Naval Air Base is on the airport, and has an Argentine Naval Aviation squadron flying P-3 Orions.
Location
43.211°S, 65.270°O · 43 m s. n. m. (141 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 2
Tower
Flight information
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 They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation.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
This airport replaced an airport noted as a pivotal site during the Trelew massacre. On August 15, 1972, 110 prisoners escaped from the Rawson jail and tried to hijack an Austral Líneas Aéreas BAC One-Eleven en route to Comodoro Rivadavia, in order to escape to Chile and from there to Cuba. Their plans failed, and 19 of them were killed by the army on August 22, at 3:30 AM.. The airport previously served international flights to Sao Paulo, Brazil. which was operated by Aerolíneas Argentinas in October 2014, but the service was ended following year. leaving the only airport without international flights.
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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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Almirante Marco Andres Zar Airport (REL). Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/REL
MLA
“Almirante Marco Andres Zar Airport (REL).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/REL. Accessed 16 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
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Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Almirante Marco Andres Zar Airport (REL). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/REL (Accessed: 16 October 2026).
BibTeX
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title = {{Almirante Marco Andres Zar Airport (REL)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
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urldate = {2026-10-16},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-16}
}Wikipedia
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