FAP Lieutenant Jaime Andres de Montreuil Morales Airport — Chimbote, Peru

Designated CHM, Chimbote's airport carries the formal name FAP Lieutenant Jaime Andrés de Montreuil Morales in honor of a Peruvian Air Force officer, and it serves a coastal city that grew explosively in the mid-twentieth century into one of the world's largest fishing ports, built almost entirely around the anchoveta catch that once fed a booming fishmeal export industry. Overfishing and the periodic disruptions of El Niño have humbled that industry since its peak, but Chimbote remains a working port city rather than a tourist destination, and the airport's modest schedule of flights to Lima reflects that industrial, unglamorous character. Steel manufacturing also took root here in past decades, adding another layer to the city's identity. The runway sits close to the Pacific shoreline in Peru's Ancash region, north of Lima.