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Región de Murcia International Airport (ICAO LEMI, IATA RMU) is the AENA-operated international gateway for southeast Spain's Murcia region, sited at Corvera. Opened in 2019 with a single long ILS-equipped runway, it replaced the former joint military-civil airfield at San Javier and offers a straightforward approach for sim pilots over the arid Murcian countryside.
Región de Murcia International Airport, generally known by its ICAO code LEMI or its old working name Corvera Airport, is the principal international airport serving the Region of Murcia in southeast Spain. It replaced the former Murcia-San Javier Airport in January 2019 and was formally named Aeropuerto Internacional de la Región de Murcia - Juan de la Cierva after the Spanish aeronautical pioneer who invented the autogyro. For a simulator pilot it is a modern, single-runway field with a long hard-surfaced strip and an ILS approach, set in the dry, hilly terrain typical of Murcia province.
The airport sits at Corvera, between the villages of Corvera and Los Martínez del Puerto in the Region of Murcia, southeast Spain, at coordinates 37.8031N, 1.1247W. It lies well away from the coast compared with its predecessor at San Javier, which remains an active military airfield roughly 40 kilometres to the east.
LEMI has a single physical runway, 05/23, 9,842 feet long with a hard surface and runway lighting throughout. Runway 23 is equipped with an ILS for precision approaches, while runway 05 is served by non-precision means only. Field elevation is 640 feet.
Runway 23 is served by an ILS, giving a precision approach into the field; runway 05 is used for the reciprocal, non-precision direction. No specific radio frequencies for the aerodrome are documented in the aeronautical data available for this guide.
Región de Murcia International Airport was built to replace Murcia-San Javier Airport, a shared military and civilian field some 40 kilometres away that also housed the Academia General del Aire, the Spanish Air Force's officer training school, and had become impractical to expand for growing civil traffic. The company Aeromur was formed in 2002 to promote and finance a new regional airport, and the regional government put its construction and operation out to tender in 2006. The new airport at Corvera was officially opened on 15 January 2019 by King Felipe VI, taking the formal name Aeropuerto Internacional de la Región de Murcia - Juan de la Cierva in honour of the Murcian-born inventor of the autogyro. San Javier closed to civil traffic the day before, on 14 January 2019, its last commercial service being a Ryanair flight to Manchester, and all airline operations transferred to Corvera. The project later became politically contentious: a 2024 Regional Assembly commission investigated a failed damages settlement connected with the airport's construction, amid criticism that San Javier, which had carried over two million passengers in 2007, was closed in favour of a new airport that only passed 800,000 passengers in 2023, with construction and operating costs reported to have exceeded 300 million euros.
Corvera now functions as the main commercial and international airport for the Region of Murcia, having taken over all scheduled air services from the former San Javier airport. The old San Javier field continues in use as a military airfield, home to the Academia General del Aire and the Spanish Air and Space Force's aerobatic display team, the Patrulla Águila, which can often be seen practising in the vicinity of the nearby Mar Menor.
