Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

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]

Ciudad de Catamayo Airport

Camilo Ponce Enriquez Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesLoja, Ecuador
LocationCatamayo
Elevation AMSL4,056 ft / 1,236 m
Coordinates03°59′45″S 79°22′20″W
Map
LOH
Location of airport in Ecuador
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 2,000 6,562 Asphalt
Sources: GCM[1] Google Maps[2]

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.

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


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