Chame Airport
IATA: none ICAO: none LID: MP24
Summary
Airport type	Public
Location	Panama
Elevation AMSL	141 ft / 43 m
Coordinates	8°35′20″N 79°53′23″W / 8.58889°N 79.88972°W / 8.58889; -79.88972
Map
MP24 Location in Panama
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 18/36 1,200 3,937 Asphalt
Sources: WAD[1] GCM[2] Google Maps[3]

Chame Airport (LID: MP24) is an airport serving Chame District, a district in the Panamá Oeste Province of Panama.

The airport is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) inland from the Gulf of Panama. There is distant rising terrain to the north.

The Taboga Island non-directional beacon (Ident: TBG) and VOR-DME (Ident: TBG) are 22.9 nautical miles (42.4 km) east-northeast of the airport.^[4][5]

History

During World War II the facility was used as an auxiliary military airfield (Chame Airdrome, Chame Airfield #1) of Howard Field as part of the defense of the Panama Canal. Assigned units were the USAAF 53d Fighter Group, 14th Fighter Squadron (2 January-24 November 1942) and 28th Fighter Squadron (10 November 1942 – 25 September 1945) flying P-39 Airacobras, AT-6, BT-13, and UC-78s.^[6][7]