Lieutenant Ramon A. Ayub Gonzalez Airport Aeropuerto Internacional Teniente Ramon A. Ayub González | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Serves | Encarnación | ||||||||||
Location | Capitán Miranda, Paraguay | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 199 m / 653 ft | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 27°13′37″S 55°50′14″W / 27.2270°S 55.8373°W | ||||||||||
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Teniente Ramon A. Ayub Gonzalez Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Teniente Ramon A. Ayub González) ( IATA: ENO, ICAO: SGEN) is an international airport serving Encarnación, capital of the Itapúa Department of Paraguay. It is located in the Capitan Miranda district, around 14 km north of the center of Encarnación. [1]
The airport belongs to the Municipality of Encarnación, and was constructed nearby the Yacyretá Dam. [2] [3] Initially, projects were planned for flights to Asunción and Buenos Aires. [4]
The airport was habilitated in 2013. [5] On 4 January 2013, it was reported that the first commercial flight would arrive at Encarnación on 15 January from Resistencia, Argentina. [6] On 6 January 2013, ABC reports that the Intendent of Encarnación, Juan Smalko, informs of the habilitation of Encarnación's Airport to operate national and international flights. [3] The habilitation serves for small air planes, which can be private or public. [3] Juan Smalko informs that the airport operates flight during the day time but would soon be implementing a regular line of flights, with an Argentine airline. [3] On 15 January 2013, it is said that the route from Asunción to Encarnación will become the second domestic route to operate regularly in Paraguay, in addition to the Asunción-Ciudad del Este route which is operate by TAM Mercosur. [7]
On 19 January 2013, it is reported that the first international flight descends at Encarnación's Airport, arriving from Bahia, Brazil. [2] TAGUA operated to Asunción's Silvio Pettirossi Airport as of 10 November 2014. [8] On 12 January 2016 the airport was officially habilitated for night flights by DINAC, after a system of runway lights had been installed. [9] [10]
In March 2020, ampliation of the airport was announced, [11] including to the landing runway to 500 metres. [12] The airport continued operation during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine. [13] In December 2020, the president of the DINAC planned to realize investments to better the airport's infrastructure. [14] For 2020, it closed with a total of 1, 346 flights. [15]
As of 2013, the airport had an average of two to three flights per day. [3]
Normally this airport is served by Sol del Paraguay, an airline that flies almost daily flights to Asunción. [16] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the flights have been suspended for the time being.