| Tarapoa Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tarapoa, Ecuador | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 814 ft / 248 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 00°07′22″S76°20′15″W / 0.12278°S 76.33750°W | ||||||||||
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  TPC Location of the airport in Ecuador | |||||||||||
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Tarapoa Airport (Spanish : Aeropuerto Tarapoa) ( IATA : TPC, ICAO : SETR) is an airport serving Tarapoa, a town in the Sucumbíos Province of Ecuador.
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The runway length does not include 88 metres (289 ft) overruns at each end of the runway. The Tarapoa non-directional beacon (Ident: TRP) is located 0.5 nautical miles (0.93 km) off the approach threshold of Runway 30. [4]
A non-directional (radio) beacon (NDB) is a radio transmitter at a known location, used as an aviation or marine navigational aid. As the name implies, the signal transmitted does not include inherent directional information, in contrast to other navigational aids such as low frequency radio range, VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) and TACAN. NDB signals follow the curvature of the Earth, so they can be received at much greater distances at lower altitudes, a major advantage over VOR. However, NDB signals are also affected more by atmospheric conditions, mountainous terrain, coastal refraction and electrical storms, particularly at long range.
