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Huayanay Airport

airport in Chile

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16896292 ↗
Source-derived summary

Huayanay Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Huayanay), (ICAO: SCOY) is an airstrip 36 kilometres (22 mi) northwest of Ovalle, a city in the Coquimbo Region of Chile.

The airstrip is on a dry ridge 140 kilometres (87 mi) inland from the Pacific coast. There are ravines on all sides close to the runway.

The Tongoy VOR-DME (Ident: TOY) is located 9.7 nautical miles (18.0 km) north of the airstrip.

Editorial summary

“Huayanay Airport” enters the record as airport in Chile. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Huayanay, Airport and airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 68-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Huayanay, Airport and airport.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Huayanay Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Huayanay, Airport and airport 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 Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16896292. Authority coordinates are -30.434, -71.534. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Huayanay Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Huayanay Airport primary sources, Huayanay Airport archive and Huayanay research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Huayanay Airport”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Huayanay 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.