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Senador Petrônio Portela Airport

ICAO SBTE5.0602°S 42.8237°W67 m / 219 ftMedium airport
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Senador Petrônio Portela Airport (IATA: THE, ICAO: SBTE) is a medium airport in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. It opened on 30 Sep 1967. It has one runway, 2,200 m (7,218 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Infraero. In 2022 it handled 919 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1967–1967
30 SEP 1967
OpenedSenador Petrônio Portela Airport opens.
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
2/20
LENGTH2,200 m7,218 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
1.0M
999K
1.1M
1.1M
1.2M
1.1M
1.1M
1.1M
1.2M
608K
803K
919K
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Routes

7 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsGol Transportes Aéreos 5LATAM Brasil 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from THE. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Teresina Airport” (revision of 14 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers919K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#856of 3,974 · #68 South America · #28 BRLongest runway2,200 m7,218 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,269of 29,823 · =205 South America · =48 BRElevation67 m219 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=33,388of 43,341 · =7,613 South America · #5,158 BRAgeOpened 19672026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,747of 15,079 · =85 South America · =45 BRRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =31 BR
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
APPTERESINA APP119.600
ATISTERESINA ATIS127.800
TWRTWR118.800