Lajes Airport
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Lajes Airport is a joint civil-military airfield on Terceira Island in the Azores, Portugal, serving both regional flights and strategic military operations in the North Atlantic.
Aliases (2)
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
airport
→
joint civil-military airport → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lajes Airport
→
surface form: "Base Aérea das Lajes"
Lajes Field → |
| cityServed |
Angra do Heroísmo
→
Praia da Vitória → |
| continent | Europe → |
| country | Portugal → |
| elevationFeet | 180 → |
| elevationMeters | 55 → |
| hasFacility |
air traffic control tower
→
cargo handling facilities → military air base → search and rescue facilities → |
| hasIATAcode | TER → |
| hasICAOcode | LPLA → |
| hasMilitaryUnit |
Lajes Airport
→
surface form: "Portuguese Air Force Base No. 4"
US Air Force units (rotational) → |
| hasNavigationAid |
ILS
→
NDB → VOR/DME → |
| hasRunway | 15/33 → |
| hasTerminal | civil passenger terminal → |
| locatedIn |
Azores
→
Atlantic Ocean →
surface form: "North Atlantic Ocean"
Terceira Island NERFINISHED → |
| operatedBy | Portuguese Air Force → |
| ownedBy |
Portugal
→
surface form: "Portuguese Republic"
|
| partOf |
Lajes Airport
→
surface form: "Portuguese Air Force Base No. 4"
|
| regionServed |
Azores
→
surface form: "Autonomous Region of the Azores"
|
| runwayLengthMeters | 3314 → |
| runwaySurface | asphalt → |
| serves |
Azores
→
Terceira Island NERFINISHED → regional flights → strategic military operations → |
| strategicImportance |
North Atlantic air and naval monitoring
→
emergency diversion airfield for transatlantic flights → |
| strategicRole |
North Atlantic military logistics hub
→
transatlantic air bridge → |
| supportsOperationType |
air refueling stopovers
→
civil aviation → military aviation → transatlantic flights → |
| timezone | Azores Time → |
| usedBy |
NATO
→
Portuguese Air Force → United States Air Force → |
| utcOffset | UTC−01:00 → |
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Base Aérea das Lajes"
this entity surface form: "Portuguese Air Force Base No. 4"
this entity surface form: "Portuguese Air Force Base No. 4"