Augusto Severo International Airport
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Augusto Severo International Airport Aeroporto Internacional Augusto Severo |
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Natal | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Parnamirim, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 51 m / 167 ft | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 05°54′30″S 035°14′57″W / 5.90833°S 35.24917°WCoordinates: 05°54′30″S 035°14′57″W / 5.90833°S 35.24917°W | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Infraero SBNT | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sources: Airport Website,ANAC *IATA code NAT has been transferred to Gov. Aluízio Alves International Airport |
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| Passengers | 2,408,206 |
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| Aircraft Operations | 25,020 |
| Metric tonnes of cargo | 10,430 |
Augusto Severo International Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Internacional Augusto Severo) (IATA: NAT, ICAO: SBNT), formerly called Parnamirim Airport, was the airport that served Natal, Brazil, located in the adjoining municipality of Parnamirim.
On May 31, 2014 all domestic and international flights were moved to the new Gov. Aluízio Alves International Airport, and Augusto Severo was closed to civil aviation.
Some of its facilities were shared with the Natal Air Force Base of the Brazilian Air Force. From 24 November 1951, the airport was named after the aviator Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão (1864-1902).
Before World War II Air France operated a mail service with flying boats and landplanes across the Atlantic from Dakar which routed via Natal: Parnamirim was a combination land and marine airport also used by Pan American World Airways and Panair do Brasil flying boats. In 1940 and 1941 the Italian Airline L.A.T.I. operated a weekly landplane service from Rome to Rio de Janeiro via Recife (mainly southbound) and Natal(mainly northbound) using Savoia-Marchetti tri-motor landplanes until the aircraft were impounded and the service stopped as a result of the intervention of the British secret services in the Americas around the time of the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
The airport gained an important role during World War II as a strategic base for aircraft flying between South America and West Africa. Particularly between 1943 and 1945, this facility was used jointly by the Brazilian Air Force, United States Army, United States Navy, the Royal Air Force, and commercial airlines. The maintenance and security installations were made by the U.S. Army in the South Atlantic (USAFSA).
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