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Máximo Gómez Airport is a former regional airport in Cuba's Ciego de Ávila Province, once serving the city of Ciego de Ávila but now unserved by any scheduled airline service. It retains a single very long hard runway and is chiefly of interest to the sim pilot as a historic, largely dormant field with an unusual aviation backstory tied to the growth of nearby Cayo Coco tourism.
Máximo Gómez Airport sits near the town of Ciro Redondo in Ciego de Ávila Province, Cuba, and takes its name from Máximo Gómez, a Major General of the Ten Years' War and later Cuba's military commander during the War of Independence. Once a gateway for Canadian charter tourists heading to the Cayo Coco resorts, it is now an airfield without scheduled traffic, making it a curious and quiet destination for a virtual cross-country flight into central Cuba.
The airport lies in Ciego de Ávila Province, close to the town of Ciro Redondo and the provincial capital of Ciego de Ávila, which it historically served. No specific controlled airspace detail is available beyond the field's own radio coverage.
The airport has a single physical runway, 07/25, aligned east-west and measuring 11,545 feet in length. It has a hard surface and is lit.
The field is served by an air-to-ground frequency of 340.7 MHz, and a tower frequency of 123.6 MHz under the callsign Ciego Rdo Twr / Avila Twr. No instrument landing system is available.
The airport is named for Máximo Gómez, the Dominican-born Major General who fought in Cuba's Ten Years' War of 1868-1878 and went on to command Cuba's forces during the War of Independence from 1895 to 1898. During the 1990s the field received charter flights, mostly from Canada, carrying tourists bound for the resort island of Cayo Coco. Following the construction of Jardines del Rey Airport in 2002, traffic here dwindled to domestic services to Havana, which have since also ceased, leaving the airport without scheduled airline operations.
Máximo Gómez Airport effectively closed to scheduled traffic when Jardines del Rey Airport opened in 2002, and it remains unserved by any airline. No current details on fuel, opening hours, or facilities are available, and prior permission should be assumed necessary for any visiting flight.
