Río Amazonas Airport | |
Iata: | PTZ |
Icao: | SESM |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Ecuadorian Military |
Operator: | Mission Aviation Fellowship |
Location: | Shell Mera, Ecuador |
Elevation-F: | 3465 |
Pushpin Map: | Ecuador |
Pushpin Label: | PTZ |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in Ecuador |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 12/30 |
R1-Length-M: | 1540 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Footnotes: | GCM |
Río Amazonas Airport is an airport serving Shell Mera, a town in the Pastaza Province of Ecuador. The airport was established in 1937 by Royal Dutch Shell and abandoned in 1948. In 1949 the Mission Aviation Fellowship, a Christian missionary group, established themselves in the area and used the airport as their main base.
In March 2016, a military plane taking off from Amazonas Airport crashed in Pastaza province, killing all 22 soldiers aboard.[1] [2] [3]