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Mercedita International Airport

ICAO TJPS18.0083°N 66.5630°W37 ft / 11 mMedium airport
On the map
USAAF 32d Pursuit Squadron aircraft at Ponce Airfield, Puerto Rico, 1941
USAAF · Public domain · Commons

Mercedita International Airport (IATA: PSE, ICAO: TJPS) is a medium airport in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It opened in Apr 1948. It has one runway, 8,002 ft (2,439 m) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 190 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1948–1972
APR 1948
OpenedMercedita International Airport opens.
24 JUN 1972
DisasterPrinair Flight 191.5 killed
From Wikidata · FAAEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap · FAA diagram PDF
Passenger Terminal
12/30108° / 288° · LIT
LENGTH8,002 ft2,439 mWIDTH150 ft46 mSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2015–2025
199K
212K
174K
189K
208K
220K
288K
274K
190K
151617181922232425

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country
500 km1,000 km1,500 km2,000 km500 mi1,000 miMCO · Orlando International Airport · 1,179 mi / 1,898 kmMCOPSE

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from PSE. From the Wikipedia article “Mercedita International Airport” (revision of 24 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers190K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,557of 3,974 · #342 North America · #3 PRLongest runway8,002 ft2,439 m46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,721of 29,823 · =557 North America · #4 PRElevation37 ft11 m-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,971of 43,341 · =18,105 North America · #7 PRAgeOpened 19482026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,279of 15,079 · =2,168 North America · #4 PRRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =2 PR
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

4 channels
A/DSAN JUAN CNTR118.750
CLDCLNC DEL121.900
RDOSAN JUAN RDO109.000
UNICCTAF/UNICOM122.700