Del Norte International Airport
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| Del Norte International Airport |
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| IATA: NTR - ICAO: MMAN | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | public | ||
| Serves | Monterrey | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1470 ft (4480 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 02/20 | 6,598 | 2,011 | Asphalt |
| 11/29 | 5,049 | 1,538 | Asphalt |
Del Norte International Airport (IATA: NTR, ICAO: MMAN) is an airport located in Apodaca, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, working as a secondary airport for Mexico's third largest city, Monterrey.
Its composed of 123 hangars, mainly private, a control tower, two runways, one of 2.000 m and the other is of 1.500 m, and a terminal building with all the facilities for commercial services, including a state-of-the-art concourse with 2 jetbridges and 2 more boarding gates. The airport is mainly used for pilot-training and private use, comparable to Toluca's Airport for Mexico City.
Mexican low-cost start-ups have plans to operate to and from that airport.
Del Norte was created by American Airlines about around the 1940's, when they wanted to start service to Monterrey but there was no airport available. After a number of incidents regarding arrival procedures into Del Norte (A notorious one being Carlos Madrazo's accident on June 1969) and increasing traffic forced authorities to build another airport, General Mariano Escobedo International Airport. Around the airport you can still see some old AA letters on the inside of some selected hangars.
Recently (as of May 2006) the Airport has been upgrading Runway 20 with an ILS/DME, yet this has to be certified and published.
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