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Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport

international airport serving Mendoza, Argentina

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ1432029 ↗
Source-derived summary

Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Gobernador Francisco Gabrielli) (IATA: MDZ, ICAO: SAME), better known as El Plumerillo International Airport, is located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) northeast of the centre of Mendoza, capital of the Mendoza Province of Argentina. It is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000.

The 4th Air Brigade (El Plumerillo Military Air Base) is located on the southern section of the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Statistics

Accidents and incidents

20 January 1944: A LanChile Lodestar 18–50, registration CC-CLC-0072, was due to operate a Mendoza–San Juan cargo service when it crashed on takeoff, killing all 12 occupants on board.

See also

Transport in Argentina

List of airports in Argentina

References

External links

Mendoza Airport Aeropuertos Argentina 2000

"Airport information for El Plumerillo International Airport" – via Great Circle Mapper.

"Current weather for SAME".

Editorial summary

“Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport” enters the record as international airport serving Mendoza, Argentina. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Governor, Francisco and Gabrielli can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 1944—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Governor, Francisco and Gabrielli.
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Why this record matters

“Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Governor, Francisco and Gabrielli provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1432029. Authority coordinates are -32.832, -68.793. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000 and 1944.

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This entry incorporates text from “Governor Francisco Gabrielli International Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.