La Florida Airport TCO / SKCO
Tumaco, Narino · Colombia · Aerocivil (Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronautica Civil)
43kpax · 2009
Limited hoursJet A-1
ICAO / IATASKCO / TCO
OperatorAerocivil (Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronautica Civil)
Coordinates1.8144°N, 78.7492°W
Elevation8 ft · 2 m
Time zoneCOT (UTC-5, no DST)
Passengers / yr43,334 (2009)
CustomsNo
Border controlNo
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
Bonded—
AIP referenceSKCO — AIP Colombia / Aerocivil
Operating hoursDaylight operations only (approx. 06:00-18:00 local); no scheduled night flights for civil traffic. Runway edge lighting installed 2007, primarily for limited military use. No published curfew beyond the daylight-hours limitation; PPR advisable for non-scheduled/charter operations.
TerminalsSingle small passenger terminal with check-in counters, boarding lounge, arrivals hall and cafeteria; apron (walk-out) boarding, no jet bridges, no on-site rental-car counters.
Runways (1)
- 06/24 · 1,600 m / 5,249 ft · 27 m wide · Asphalt
Airport contact
Domestic regional airport on Colombia's Pacific coast near the Ecuador border, serving conflict-affected and remote Tumaco with scheduled Avianca, Satena and Clic service to Bogota and Cali; smaller routes historically Satena-subsidized given the area's limited surface connectivity.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Available · 2 providers
Avianca
Self-handled, Avianca. AIP AD 2.3.9 "Servicios de Escala/Handling: No" confirms no third-party handling company operates at SKCO, so the scheduled carrier handles its own turnaround. Avianca's Cali-Tumaco service is still on sale/operating in 2026 per current fare listings, confirming an active current operation (not a stale group-level claim). Flag: the "~20 weekly flights" / "main carrier" framing traces to a 2015 source; current booking-share data show Satena (and a newer entrant, Clic Air, not in this list) with larger shares of the Cali-Tumaco route than Avianca today, so treat frequency/rank language as dated.
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Satena
In-house, Satena. AIP AD 2.3.9 (Handling: No third-party company on field) confirms the state airline self-handles its own turnarounds; Satena's own route pages independently confirm Cali-Tumaco and Bogota-Tumaco service. Flag: the "~3 weekly" figure traces to a 2015 source and looks stale - recent booking-share data put Satena as the leading carrier on Cali-Tumaco (higher share than Avianca), implying materially more frequency now, though an exact current number is unconfirmed. Phone on file could not be independently matched to Satena's published channels (national call center •••, WhatsApp •••), so treat contact as unconfirmed rather than dropping the provider.
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Aircraft fuel
Unconfirmed
GAF Colombia (Globe Air Fuel S.A.S.)
Downgraded from "available" to "unconfirmed": GAF's own network-supply page (gafcolombia.com/en/services/network-supply) does not name Tumaco/La Florida among its listed airports/fuel types - the "published network-supply list explicitly names Tumaco - La Florida... AVGAS and JET A1" claim in the draft does not check out against the live page. The only Tumaco-specific evidence found is a company-profile article (Semana) stating GAF's mobile/remote-area fuel service "ha llegado desde La Guajira hasta Tumaco," a general reach claim with no airport-specific confirmation, no fuel type tied to Tumaco, and no into-plane agent confirmation. Colombia's AIP for SKCO (AD 2.4.2) lists only JET A1 as the available fuel type at this field - not AVGAS - with fuelling hours 1200-2359 (AD 2.3.8) but no fixed fuelling installation (AD 2.4.3: No), consistent with trucked-in/mobile supply generally but not proof GAF specifically is the current supplier. Contact email/phone on file also do not match the WhatsApp number (•••) shown on GAF's own site, so contact details are unconfirmed too. Real, genuine company (verified via its own site, LinkedIn, and press coverage) - kept as unconfirmed rather than dropped, per instructions. · 1200-2359
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De-icing
Not listed
Part-145 line maintenance
Not listed
Part-145 base maintenance
Not listed
Component shops & overhaul
Not listed
Flight catering
Not listed
Aircraft cleaning
Not listed
Ground support equipment
Not listed
Cargo handling
Available · 2 providers
Avianca
Self-handled, Avianca. AIP AD 2.4.1 "Cargo-handling facilities" states "A cargo de las empresas aéreas" (in charge of the airlines) - confirmed verbatim, no dedicated cargo terminal operator at SKCO. Belly cargo on Avianca's Cali-Tumaco flights is therefore handled by the airline itself. Category correctly separated from ground_handling.
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Satena
In-house, Satena. Correction: Satena's cargo page (satena.com/es/carga) does not explicitly name Tumaco - it states generically that it carries mail/cargo ("correo y carga") to all destinations it serves. Since Tumaco is a confirmed scheduled Satena destination and AIP AD 2.4.1 confirms no third-party cargo handler on field, in-house handling of belly cargo/mail there is a reasonable inference from the airline's general policy, not a directly-named citation as originally drafted.
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Aviation security
Available
Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil (Aerocivil)
Confirmed against Colombia's current AIP (AIRAC AMDT 68/25, 12 JUN 2025): AD 2.2.6 "Administración del aeródromo" names Aerocivil as the AD Administration/Operator of record for SKCO, and AD 2.3.10 lists aviation security service hours as H24. State-run field, no separate security concessionaire. Phone corrected: the AIP publishes "•••" (Colombia's post-2021 national 10-digit format), not "•••" as drafted; AIP also lists an alternate TWR mobile line •••. · H24
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Passenger & crew transport
Not listed
Flight support
Not listed
Hotel & travel
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