Mariscal Lamar International Airport

Mariscal Lamar International Airport
Aeropuerto Mariscal Lamar

Interior of Mariscal Lamar Airport

IATA: CUE – ICAO: SECU

Summary

Airport type

Public

Operator

Corporación Aeroportuaria de Cuenca

Serves

Cuenca, Ecuador

Focus city for

TAME

Elevation AMSL

8,306 ft / 2,532 m

Coordinates

02°53′22″S 078°59′04″W / 2.88944°S 78.98444°W

Website

www.aeropuertocuenca.ec

Map

CUE

Location of airport in Ecuador

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
05/23	1,900	6,234	Asphalt

Source: DAFIF^[1]^[2]

Mariscal Lamar International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Lamar) (IATA: CUE, ICAO: SECU) is an airport serving Cuenca,^[1] a city in the province of Azuay in Ecuador.

Airport is currently closed for one month from August 19 to allow for runway resurfacing work.^[3]

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation of 8,306 feet (2,532 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,234 by 118 feet (1,900 m × 36 m).^[1] Since 2002 the ILS system for the airport is available and fully operational. Despite all this improvements the location of the airport in the middle of the city it is a major handicap. Air Cuenca run out of runway in 2014 damaging the landing gear of its only plane. The company subsequently declared bankruptcy. 0n April 28 Tame also run out of runway damaging a $75,000,000 plane (enough money to compensate all of those living in harm way and extend the landing strip at least and give 100 feet xtra space on either side of it.

Airlines and destinations

A TAME Airbus A320 with the new colors parked in the Mariscal Lamar Airport in Cuenca, Ecuador

Airlines	Destinations
Avianca Ecuador	Quito
LATAM Ecuador	Quito
TAME	Guayaquil, Quito

Incidents

On 20 October 1971, a Vickers Viscount of SAETA was hijacked by six people. It landed at Cuenca Airport.^[4]
On 8 October 1982, Vickers Viscount HC-ATV of SAN Ecuador was damaged beyond economic repair.^[5]
On 11 July 1983, a Boeing 737 operating a TAME flight from Quito to Cuenca, crashed killing all 117 on board on final approach to the airport. This is the deadliest incident involving TAME ever.
On 28 April 2016, a Embraer E-190 operating a TAME flight from Quito to Cuenca, slid out of the runway. No injures or deaths were reported.

References

1 2 3 Airport information for SECU from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
↑ Airport information for CUE at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
↑ "Cuenca, Ecuador to close for one month for runway works". ch-aviation.com.
↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 8 October 2009.
↑ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 8 October 2009.

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