Chame Airport
Chame Airport is an airport serving Chame District, a district in the Panamá Oeste Province of Panama.
The airport is inland from the Gulf of Panama. There is distant rising terrain to the north.
The Taboga Island non-directional beacon and VOR-DME are east-northeast of the airport.History
During World War II the facility was used as an auxiliary military airfield of Howard Field as part of the defense of the Panama Canal. Assigned units were the USAAF 53d Fighter Group, 14th Fighter Squadron and 28th Fighter Squadron flying P-39 Airacobras, AT-6, BT-13, and UC-78s.
