Del Norte International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional del Norte, ) is an airport located in

General Escobedo General Escobedo, or simply Escobedo, is a city and municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico that is part of the Monterrey Metropolitan area. As of the census of 2005, the population was 295,131 in the city and 299,364 in the municipality. The municipa ...

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

, working as a secondary airport for

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's second largest city,

Monterrey Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...

History

Del Norte was created by

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around the 1940s, 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 Mexicana de Aviación Flight 704's accident in June 1969) and increasing traffic forced authorities to build another airport,

General Mariano Escobedo International Airport Monterrey International Airport, ( es, link=yes, Aeropuerto Internacional de Monterrey, ), ceremonial name General Mariano Escobedo International Airport, is an international airport located in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico. Together with Del N ...

. Around the airport, visitors can still see some old AA letters on the inside of some selected hangars.

Facilities

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, also this airport hosts the Center of Investigation, Innovation in Aeronautic Engineering from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León As of September 14, 2007, the Airport has upgraded Runway 20 with an ILS/DME.

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* Airports in Nuevo León Transportation in Monterrey {{Mexico-airport-stub