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Senador Petrônio Portela Airport serves Teresina, the capital of Piauí state in north-eastern Brazil, as the city's main commercial gateway. It sits at 203 feet elevation and offers a single hard-surfaced runway long enough to accommodate airline jet traffic, though it has no instrument landing system.
Senador Petrônio Portela Airport (ICAO: SBTE, IATA: THE) is the principal airport serving Teresina, the capital of the Brazilian state of Piauí. It is classified as a medium airport with scheduled airline service, making it the main point of air access to the region for both commercial and general aviation traffic.
The airport lies at coordinates 5.0606 S, 42.8244 W, at an elevation of 203 feet, within the vicinity of Teresina in Piauí state, Brazil.
The airport has a single physical runway, 02/20, of hard surface and lit for night operations. The 02 threshold gives a length of 7277 feet, while the reciprocal 20 threshold gives 7249 feet, reflecting the same runway measured from each end. There is no ILS installed.
Pilots can expect to work Teresina Approach on 119.6 MHz, with a Teresina ATIS broadcast available on 127.8 MHz for arrival and departure information. Tower frequency is 118.8 MHz for movements in the immediate vicinity of the aerodrome. No ILS approach is published for the field.
Senador Petrônio Portela Airport continues to operate as a medium-sized airport handling scheduled airline services into and out of Teresina, alongside general aviation movements.