Camilo_Ponce_Enríquez_Airport

Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

Airport in Catamayo

Ciudad de Catamayo Airport, formerly known as Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport (IATA: LOH, ICAO: SECA) is an airport serving Loja, the capital of the Loja Province in southern Ecuador. Its name was changed from Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport (after a former president of the country) to Ciudad de Catamayo Airport on 13 May 2013.[3][4]

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The airport is at Catamayo, a city in a mountain valley 18 kilometres (11 mi) west of Loja. There is rising terrain south of the airport, and mountainous terrain in all other quadrants. The Loja non-directional beacon (Ident: LOJ) is located on the field.[5] Several sources still list the airport ICAO code as SETM.

Airlines and destinations

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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.[6]
  • On 14 July 1980, Vickers Viscount HC-BHB of Aerolíneas Cóndor was damaged beyond economic repair in a landing accident.[7]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Airport information for LOH at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. [2]
    Google Maps - Catamayo
  3. [3]
    News Agency Andes, Monday May 13, 2013: Ciudad de Catamayo is the new official of the airport of Loja
  4. [4]
    Newspaper El Comercio, Monday May 13, 2013: Ciudad de Catamayo is the new of the airport of Loja Archived 2014-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
  5. [5]
    Loja NDB
  6. [6]
    Aviation Safety Network Accident Description
  7. [7]
    "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 8 October 2009.


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