El Castaño Airfield (LECT)

El Castaño Airfield at a glance

El Castaño Airfield is a small airport / airfield in Luciana, Castilla–La Mancha, Spain. The field elevation of 2,116 ft (645 m) is the number every arriving pilot dials against QNH — circuit heights and initial approach altitudes at LECT are all figured from it. There is no scheduled airline service listed here — typical traffic is general aviation, training and local operations.

The single runway, 14/32, offers 5,036 ft (1535 m) of asp surface, with runway lighting for night operations. Runway numbers give magnetic orientation: runway 14 points roughly 140° magnetic.

El Castaño Airfield has no METAR station of its own, so the weather picture is assembled rather than read: take the current report and forecast from the nearest reporting airport — Aeródromo Forestal "Puebla de Don Rodrigo" is the closest listed field, 11 km away — and treat it as the regional trend, not local truth. Terrain does the rest: a valley field can sit in fog while the reporting airport shows CAVOK, and wind bends around ridgelines in ways no distant anemometer captures. The honest sequence is the regional METAR for the go/no-go trend, then your own eyes at the field for the final call.

Flight-planning notes for El Castaño Airfield

Density altitude is the quiet performance-killer at any field: on a hot day the 2,116 ft field elevation of El Castaño Airfield can translate into a substantially higher density altitude, stretching take-off rolls and flattening climb rates — run the numbers rather than trusting the feel of a standard day. As with most small fields, the recorded details can lag reality — surfaces get resurfaced, thresholds move and operating hours change — so a call ahead to the field operator is part of the plan, not a courtesy.

This entry is one of 548 airports and airfields we list for Spain — the country index on the airports hub links the rest. Coordinates above are given in both DMS and decimal degrees so they can go straight into a GPS, a flight planner or a chart plot without conversion.

Where this data comes from

The reference layer behind this page builds on the OurAirports dataset — a public-domain, community-maintained register of the world's airports that many flight planners and apps rely on — with equity records preserved from documented historical listings where the dataset is silent. Figures are carried as published: elevations as surveyed, coordinates as filed, runway dimensions as recorded. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap, and the whole layer regenerates from source on every site build, so corrections upstream arrive here automatically.