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Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport also known as Palmaseca International Airport is an airport located in Palmira, Colombia, serving Cali and its surrounding region. It is Colombia's third largest airport in terms of passengers, transporting 3,422,919 in 2010. Cali airport often serves as the alternative airport to Bogotá - El Dorado Int'l Airport and other Colombian airports. Alfonso Bonilla Aragón is located in a long valley that runs from north to south, and is surrounded by mountains up to 14,000 feet (4,000 m) high. An (H24) airport strategically located in the Western Hemisphere for flights of the transcontinental zone of the Pacific coast that connects North America with South America. It is located approximately 5 hours flight from Santiago de Chile, 50 minutes from Quito, Ecuador, and about 3 hours 18 minutes from Miami airport. The airport has one runway, 9,842 feet (3000 m) in length. This runway is asphalt paved, and at an elevation of 3,162 feet (964 m). The runway can serve aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 747. It is equipped with the following navigation aids: Primary Radar, Secondary Radar, ILS, ALS, PAPI, VOR, NDB, DME, RVR, runway centerline lights, threshold lights, and taxiway lights. The airport has a SEI IX protection. Alfonso Bonilla airport is notable in that it is one of the few secondary airports in Latin America open 24 hours a day. Due to excellent meteorological conditions, this airport is in operation throughout the year. With the nearest population center, Cali, being 12 miles away, the airport is allowed to operate without any environmental/noise restrictions. Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport has non-stop flights to the United States, Spain, the Netherlands, Ecuador and Panama, plus direct flights to Peru. ==History== On 21 April 1921 Ferruccio Guicciardi flew his Italian made Macchi-Hanriot HD-1, named "''Telegraph I''" from Guayaquil, Ecuador, stopping in Quito and Pasto, Colombia before landing in Cali. This was the first ever plane to land in Cali. The Department of Valle and the City Council had offered a lucrative prize of $9,500 pesos to the first pilot to land in the city. This was followed by aerial activity in the capital of Valle del Cauca. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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