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Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
4,056 ft / 1,236 m

2,050
  
6,725

Address
  
Catamayo, Ecuador

Elevation
  
1,236 m

Location
  
Loja, Ecuador

06/24
  
2,050

6,725
  
Asphalt

Code
  
LOH

Phone
  
+593 99 631 3753

Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

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Ciudad de Catamayo Airport, formerly known as Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport (IATA: LOH, ICAO: SECA) is an airport in Loja in Loja Province in southern Ecuador. Its name was changed from Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport (after an ex-president of the country) to Ciudad de Catamayo Airport on 13 May 2013.

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Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 4,056 feet (1,236 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 06/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,725 feet (2,050 m) in length.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 19 November 1979, an Ecuadorian Army IAI Arava 201 crashed on takeoff, killing all 16 people on board. General Rafael Rodríquez Palacios and his wife and daughter were among the dead.
  • On 14 July 1980, Vickers Viscount HC-BHB of Aerolíneas Cóndor was damaged beyond economic repair in a landing accident.

    • References

    Ciudad de Catamayo Airport Wikipedia
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