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Updated needed for Airport of Natal (NAT) S3B

Posted by kaarlows on 02 January 2015 - 07:29 PM

The airport of Natal (NAT) has passed through important changes since May 2014.

 

The original airport, called Augusto Severo International Airport was officialy closed on May 31st of 2014, and all flights were transfered to the newly built airport São Gonçalo do Amarante–Governador Aluízio Alves International Airport.

 

The old airport is now used only by the Brazilian Airforce, and has adopted the IATA code of NSA.

 

The new airport assumed the old IATA code (NAT), and looking at the passenger info, it seems to have greatly increased so far. But it's important to wait until June 2015 —when it will complete 1 year of operation— to see if those numbers stand or was mainly due to the World Cup in Brazil.

 

With this change, is important to change the coordinates to the airport and adjust the runway length from 8,530 to 9,842.


One important thing I ended up forgetting was that the "State/Province" info for Natal airport is wrong.

It should be "Rio Grande do Norte", instead of "Parnamirim".







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