Uruapan International Airport , also known as "Lic. y Gen. Ignacio López Rayón International Airport", serves the

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city of

Uruapan Uruapan is the second largest city in the Mexico, Mexican state of Michoacán. It is located at the western edge of the Tarascan Plateau, Purépecha highlands, just to the east of the Tierra Caliente (Mexico), Tierra Caliente region. Since the colo ...

, and it is the second-busiest and second-largest international gateway of the

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Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...

after

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. It has one terminal. The airport is operated by

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, a federal government-owned corporation. The airport sports an asphalt runway 2,400 meters (or 7,874 feet) in length, capable of accommodating aircraft such as the

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and the

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. The runway's approach vectors are 20 degrees for the north end of the runway and 200 degrees for the south end. The runway is located at an elevation of 1,603 meters (5,258 feet, or just short of a mile) above sea level. In 2021, the airport handled 167,112 passengers, and in 2022 it handled 151,151 passengers.

History

The first air services to the city of Uruapan were in 1937 to

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. The current airport was incorporated to the

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network in the year of 1970. Aero Cuahonte and Aero Sudpacífico were once regional airlines based at the airport. In the past, it has also been served by airlines such as

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Avolar Avolar Aerolíneas, S.A. de C.V. (sensational spelling of "a volar", roughly meaning "Let's fly") was a low-cost airline based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, with corporate offices in Tijuana. The airline operated a domestic network of 17 ...

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and TAESA Airlines. The first international services to Uruapan began in October 2012, with Volaris to Los Angeles.

Airlines and destinations

Destinations map

Statistics

Passengers

Accidents and incidents

TAESA Flight 725 TAESA Flight 725 was a scheduled flight originating in Tijuana International Airport and ending at Mexico City International Airport with intermediate stopovers in Guadalajara and Uruapan, that crashed shortly after departure from this last airpo ...

, a

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, crashed on take-off from Uruapan international airport en route to Mexico City on November 25, 1999, killing all 18 people on board.

References

External links

Uruapan Intl. Airport
Airports in Michoacán {{Mexico-airport-stub