Comandante Espora Airport (IATA: BHI, ICAO: SAZB), also known as Bahía Blanca Airport, is a domestic airport in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, which is served by Aerolíneas Argentinas and LADE. The airport shares its runways and its name with Comandante Espora Air Naval Base (Base Aeronaval Comandante Espora), named after Tomás Espora, a naval officer who fought in the 1810-25 Argentine War of Independence. Comandante Espora is the main base of the Argentine Navy‘s air arm, the Argentine Naval Aviation. The base was given the identifier BACE by the navy.