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Airport information for Benj Matienzo Airport Country: Argentina Location: Tucuman Coordinates: 26.51.00S / 065.06.00W IATA Code: TUC Timezone: GMT -3 Direct flights form Benj Matienzo Airport Direct flights to Benj Matienzo Airport Find connecting flights to Benj Matienzo Airport Find connecting flights from Benj Matienzo Airport

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Teniente General Benjamín Matienzo International Airport (IATA: TUC, ICAO: SANT) is the international airport that assists Tucumán in the northward of Argentina. It was built in 1981, and its depot was kick off on twelve October 1986. This Airport replaced the old 1, turn up on the Ninth of July Park, because of its bad place (600m from the Plaza Independencia). The old airport had merely 1 short landing track (1600m/5000ft) and it was closed in 1987. Now the Bus Main Station uses divisions of the appron of the airport, while the Music School from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán uses its rider depot. The Departing Sector was reconstructed in 2005. It is able to deal large aircraft such as the Boeing 757 (seen at smallest ten clips), Boeing 767 (seen twelve clips from Lan Cargo), McDonnell Douglas DC-10 from Cielos Airlines, seen 7 clips in 2008, and the Antonov An-124 seen one time in 1994.

It has 135,000m² of landing track, 21,250m² of taxi strip, a 6,985m² depot, two depots of 1,840m², and parkland locations for 278 auto. It has a little freight depot of 50m². Cargo voyages are eminent. Tucumán is the forth most eminent Airport in Argentina in say of Tons of Cargo (after Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Córdoba and Mendoza). Most of freight voyages are scheduled between September and November, taking fresh fruits to United States.

In 1988, it dealt 710,000 riders. In 1998 568,000. And in 2008, merely 287,000 riders. There are programs of more air hose to get to Tucumán.

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