Embraer Unidade Gavião Peixoto
| Embraer Unidade Gavião Peixoto | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | SBGP | ||
| IATA code | none | ||
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| Height above MSL | 609 m (1998 ft ) | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 20 km west of Gavião Peixoto | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | 2001 | ||
| operator | Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica SA | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 02/20 | 4967 m × 45 m asphalt | ||
The Embraer Unidade Gavião Peixoto is a private airfield in the Brazilian state of São Paulo not far from the municipality of Gavião Peixoto and the city of Araraquara . The airfield has the longest private runway on the American continent and the fourth longest in the world.
use
The aircraft manufacturer Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica, SA (Embraer) uses the system for test and delivery flights as well as material transport and company air traffic. Embraer has operated a plant with 3,000 employees at the airport since 2001. The wing sections of the Embraer 190 and Embraer 195 and the Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano are manufactured here. The final assembly of the Embraer Phenom 100 and Embraer Phenom 300 types has also taken place here since 2008 .
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary, Embraer planted 600,000 trees outside of the assembly plant to reforest 356 hectares.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )