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FAP Captain José Abelardo Quiñones González International Airport

FAP Captain José Abelardo Quiñones González International Airport

Airport in Peru

Capitán FAP José A. Quiñones González International Airport (IATA: CIX, ICAO: SPHI) is an airport serving Chiclayo, Peru and the surrounding metropolitan area. It is run by ADP, a private airport operator that operates various airports in northern Peru. It is the main airport of the Lambayeque Region, one of the most populous regions of Peru.

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The airport is also used by the Peruvian Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea del Perú, FAP). It hosts one of the Air Force's two air superiority/interceptor squadrons, Escuadrón Aéreo 612 (Fighter Squadron 612 "Fighting Cocks"). The blast shelters housing the squadron's Mig 29 aircraft are visible from the airport runways.

The airport is named after Jose Quiñones Gonzalez, an FAP pilot who was killed during the July 1941 Ecuadorian-Peruvian War.

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See also

References

  1. [1]
    Airport information for CIX at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. [2]
    "Sky Airline Peru Network Additions From July 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  3. [3]
    "Star Peru Resumes Chiclayo – Tarapoto From mid-Dec 2023". Aeroroutes. Retrieved 14 December 2023.


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