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Alcantarilla Air Base

Alcantarilla, Spain

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LERI

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250 ft

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Alcantarilla · MC · Spain

Position

37.951°, -1.230° · 250 ft elev.

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Spanish Air Force base near Murcia with parachuting heritage.

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Alcantarilla, Spain

Alcantarilla Air Base (ICAO: LERI) is a military aerodrome operated by the Spanish Air Force, located in the municipality of Alcantarilla, in the Region of Murcia, southeastern Spain. It sits a short distance southwest of the city of Murcia and has served as an active military installation for decades. The base is best known as the home of the Spanish Air Force's parachute training school, the Escuela Militar de Paracaidismo 'Méndez Parada,' which trains military paratroopers. It also hosts various transport and training aircraft operations. The base is not open to commercial passenger traffic.

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›Home to the Spanish Air Force's Escuela Militar de Paracaidismo 'Méndez Parada' parachute training school.
›Operated exclusively by the Spanish Air Force with no commercial passenger services.
›Located in the Region of Murcia, a few kilometers southwest of Murcia city.
›Supports transport and military training aircraft operations.
›Has no assigned IATA code due to its purely military function.

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Alcantarilla is a town and municipality in southeastern Spain, in the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia. The town is only 7 km away from the capital of the region, the city of Murcia, and one of its peculiarities is that it is completely surrounded by "pedanías" of the municipality of Murcia like Sangonera La Seca, San Ginés, Nonduermas, Puebla de Soto, La Ñora, Javalí Viejo and Javalí Nuevo.

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