| Santa Rita Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Santa Rita, Bolivia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 750 ft / 229 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 13°54′30″S66°21′45″W / 13.90833°S 66.36250°W Coordinates: 13°54′30″S66°21′45″W / 13.90833°S 66.36250°W | ||||||||||
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  SLRT Location of Santa Rita Airport in Bolivia | |||||||||||
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Santa Rita Airport( ICAO : SLRT) is a rural airstrip serving the lightly populated pampa region of the Beni Department of Bolivia. The nearest town is Santa Rosa de Yacuma, 50 kilometres (31 mi) southwest.
The ICAOairport code or location indicator is a four-letter code designating aerodromes around the world. These codes, as defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization and published in ICAO Document 7910: Location Indicators, are used by air traffic control and airline operations such as flight planning.
Beni, sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country, covering 213,564 square kilometers, and it was created by supreme decree on November 18, 1842 during the administration of General José Ballivián. Its capital is Trinidad.
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. The capital is Sucre while the seat of government and financial center is located in La Paz. The largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located on the Llanos Orientales a mostly flat region in the east of Bolivia.
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The San Borja VOR (Ident: BOR) is located 59.9 nautical miles (110.9 km) south-southwest of the airport. [4]
Very High Frequency (VHF) Omni-Directional Range (VOR) is a type of short-range radio navigation system for aircraft, enabling aircraft with a receiving unit to determine its position and stay on course by receiving radio signals transmitted by a network of fixed ground radio beacons. It uses frequencies in the very high frequency (VHF) band from 108.00 to 117.95 MHz. Developed in the United States beginning in 1937 and deployed by 1946, VOR is the standard air navigational system in the world, used by both commercial and general aviation. By 2000 there were about 3,000 VOR stations around the world including 1,033 in the US, reduced to 967 by 2013 with more stations being decommissioned with the widespread adoption of GPS.
