Comandante Espora Airport — Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Comandante Espora Airport serves Bahía Blanca in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, functioning as a joint civil and naval facility at an elevation of 246 feet with three runways. Bahía Blanca sits on Argentina's Atlantic coast south of the capital, an important port city and naval base for the Argentine Navy. The airport's name honors an early Argentine naval aviator, and its shared military and civilian role shapes some of the field's operating patterns. Buenos Aires Province stretches across a huge swath of Argentina's pampas, and Bahía Blanca marks something of a transition point toward the more sparsely populated Patagonian region further south. Scheduled flights connect the city mainly to Buenos Aires, giving the naval base and surrounding petrochemical industry a direct air link to the capital.