Macaé Airport

Benedito Lacerda Airport (IATA: MEA, ICAO: SBME) is the airport serving Macaé, Brazil. The airport is named after Benedicto Lacerda (1903–1958), a musician born in Macaé.

Benedito Lacerda Airport

Aeroporto Benedito Lacerda
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorFlughafen Zürich AG
ServesMacaé
Elevation AMSL2 m / 7 ft
Coordinates22°20′34″S 041°45′50″W
Websitemea.aseb-airport.com/pt-br/
Map
MEA
Location in Brazil
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06/24 1,200 3,937 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers86,228 42.4%
Aircraft Operations17,616 25.3%
Metric tonnes of cargo0.3 91.9%
Statistics: Infraero[1]
Sources: Airport Website,[2] ANAC[3]

It is operated by Flughafen Zürich AG.

History

The airport was established in the 1960s as an airfield for general aviation and a flying club. In the 1980s the runway was paved and an apron and a terminal with 941 m² were constructed, enabling Macaé Airport to fully support the operations related to the Campos basin. In fact, most of its movement (98%) is related to helicopter flights to/from offshore oil platforms of the Campos basin. Its apron has 6 positions for fixed-wing aircraft and 38 positions for rotorcrafts.

Previously operated by Infraero, on March 15, 2019 Flughafen Zürich AG won a 30-year concession to operate the airport.[4]

Airlines and destinations

No scheduled flights operate at this airport.

Accidents and incidents
  • 28 June 1984: a TAM Airlines Embraer EMB 110C Bandeirante registration PP-SBC operating a chartered flight by Petrobras from Rio de Janeiro-Galeão to Macaé flew into São João Hill while descending through rain and clouds over the Municipality of São Pedro da Aldeia. All 16 passengers and 2 crew died. The passengers were journalists of well-known Brazilian networks who were preparing a special report about the Campos Basin oil fields.[5][6]

Access

The airport is located 6 km (4 mi) from downtown Macaé.

See also

References
  1. "Estatísticas". Infraero (in Portuguese). 20 February 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  2. "Aeroporto de Macaé MEA". Flughafen Zürich AG (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  3. "Aeródromos". ANAC (in Portuguese). 15 October 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
  4. "Governo obtém R$ 2,377 bilhões em concessão de aeroportos em blocos". ANAC (in Portuguese). 15 March 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  5. "Accident description PP-SBC". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved August 4, 2011.
  6. Germano da Silva, Carlos Ari César (2008). "Visumento". O rastro da bruxa: história da aviação comercial brasileira no século XX através dos seus acidentes 1928-1996 (in Portuguese) (2 ed.). Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS. pp. 338–341. ISBN 978-85-7430-760-2.
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