Cotopaxi International Airport | |
Iata: | LTX |
Icao: | SELT |
Type: | Public / Military |
Operator: | Ecuadorian Air Force |
City-Served: | Latacunga, Ecuador |
Pushpin Map: | Ecuador |
Pushpin Label: | LTX |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in Ecuador |
Elevation-F: | 9480 |
Coordinates: | -0.9069°N -78.6158°W |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 01/19 |
R1-Length-M: | 3712 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source: WAD[1] GCM |
Cotopaxi International Airport (Spanish; Castilian: Aeropuerto Internacional Cotopaxi) is a high-elevation airport in Latacunga, the capital of the Cotopaxi Province in Ecuador. The airport is within a broad valley of the Ecuadoran Andes, with rising terrain east and west, and mountainous terrain distant in all quadrants.
It has the second longest runway in Ecuador. Runway length includes a displaced threshold on Runway 19.
Cargo B airlines once operated to the airport with Boeing 747 freighter airplanes, making it the largest airplane to operate at this airport. Cargolux currently operates the type to Europe from Cotopaxi.