Eduardo Gomes International Airport
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| Eduardo Gomes-Manaus International Airport Aeroporto Internacional Eduardo Gomes-Manaus |
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| IATA: MAO – ICAO: SBEG | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Infraero | ||
| Serves | Manaus | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 80 m / 264 ft | ||
| Coordinates | 03°02′19″S 60°02′59″W / 3.03861°S 60.04972°W | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 10/28 | 2,700 | 8,858 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2008) | |||
| Passengers | 2,021,668 | ||
| Aircraft Operations | 44,823 | ||
| Metric tonnes of cargo | 131,476 | ||
| Sources: Airport Website [1], Infraero [2] | |||
Eduardo Gomes International Airport (IATA: MAO, ICAO: SBEG), is located in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. It is administered by Infraero. The airport is named after Brazilian politician and military figure Eduardo Gomes and has two terminal buildings. Terminal 1 receives domestic and international flights and Terminal 2, also known as "Eduardinho" (in Portuguese: Little Eduardo), opened in 1980, receives regional flights and general aviation.
Eduardo Gomes replaced Manaus' first airport Ponta Pelada, from where all civil traffic moved out. Today Ponta Pelada is the Manaus Air Force Base.
Construction began in 1972 and the airport was officially inaugurated on March 31, 1976, becoming the most modern airport in Brazil during that decade and the first one with loading bridges. It was the first Brazilian airport to have jetways and, it was known as The Supersonic Airport (after receiving a non-scheduled Concorde flight). The first aircraft to land at the airport was a military de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo. The first scheduled flight operated by a Brazilian regular airline was made by a Cruzeiro's Boeing 737-200 and the first international scheduled flight was operated by an Air France Boeing 747-100, flying from Paris to Cayenne to Manaus to Lima and back.
In 2008, the airport was ranked 15th in terms of passengers, 14th in terms of aircraft operations, and 3rd in terms of cargo in Brazil, placing it amongst the busiest airports in the country.
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[edit] Airlines, Destinations, and Terminals
[edit] Passenger
| Airlines | Destinations | Terminal |
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| Azul | Campinas-Viracopos | 1 |
| COPA | Panama City | 1 |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta | 1 |
| Gol | Belém, Boa Vista, Bogotá, Brasília, Cruzeiro do Sul, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Santarém, Salvador da Bahia, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Vitória | 1 |
| Meta | Boa Vista | 2 |
| Rico | Borba, Coari, Manicoré, Maués | 2 |
| TAM | Aracaju, Belém, Boa Vista, Brasília, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Fortaleza, Miami, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador da Bahia, Santarém, São Luis, São Paulo-Guarulhos | 1 |
| OceanAir | Brasília | 1 |
| TRIP | Altamira, Araguaína, Barcelos, Belém, Carajás, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Itaituba, Lábrea, Londrina, Parintins, Porto Velho, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Santarém, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Tabatinga, Trombetas, Tucuruí | 2 |
[edit] Cargo
- ABSA
- Arrow Cargo
- LAN Cargo
- Florida West International Airways
- Atlas Air
- Beta Cargo
- Skymaster Airlines
- VarigLog
- Master Top Airlines
- MasAir
- Tampa Cargo
- Centurion Air Cargo
- Southern Air
- TradeWinds Cargo
[edit] Accidents and Incidents
- 21 April 1983: three Libyan Air Force (LARAF) Il-76TDs and a C-130 landed at Manaus airport after one of the Il-76s developed some technical problems. The aircraft were then searched by the Brazilian authorities: instead of medical supplies - as quoted in the transport documentation - crates with 17 Aero L-39s light training and attack aircraft bound for Nicaragua, to support the country's war against US-backed Contras were found. The cargo was impounded, while the transports were permitted to return to Libya.[3]
- 29 September 2006: Gol flight 1907, a Boeing 737-8EH registration PR-GTD en route from Eduardo Gomes International Airport to Rio de Janeiro - Galeão via Brasília, collided with a business jet Embraer Legacy on its first leg, fell, disintegrated in midair, and crashed into the Amazon forest in the north of the State of Mato Grosso, killing all of the 154 passengers and crew on board of the Gol aircraft.
- 26 March 2009: a cargo McDonnell Douglas DC-10 flying from Manaus to Bogotá lost parts of an engine whilst flying over Manaus. The engine parts fell into the town of Manaus damaging 12 houses, the aircraft managed to land safely at Bogotá. No-one was injured or killed in this incident.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Airport Official Website
- ^ Infraero Statistics for the Airport
- ^ www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_157.shtml
[edit] External links
- Airport information for SBEG at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.. Source: DAFIF.
- Airport information for SBEG at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- Current weather for SBEG at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for MAO at Aviation Safety Network
Media related to Eduardo Gomes-Manaus International Airport at Wikimedia Commons- Pictures of Manaus International Airport
