Tuxpan Naval Air Base
Tuxpan Naval Air Base Base Aeronaval de Tuxpán | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Operator | Secretariat of the Navy | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tuxpan, Veracruz | ||||||||||
| Location | Tuxpan Municipality | ||||||||||
| Commander | Contralmirante José Hermilo Cuervo Salas | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 9 ft / 3 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 20°56′43″N 097°22′35″W / 20.94528°N 97.37639°W | ||||||||||
| Website | https://www.gob.mx/semar/documentos/directorio-de-mandos-navales | ||||||||||
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FVS Location of the airport in Veracruz FVS FVS (Mexico) | |||||||||||
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Fausto Vega Santander National Airport or Tuxpan Naval Air Base (ICAO: MM31, AFAC: FVS) is a military airport located in Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico.
History and facilities
Tuxpan Airport was a stopover on Mexicana de Aviación's first commercial route (Mexico-Tuxpan-Tampico), which was also the first commercial aviation flight in all of North America, as it was on this route that the airline made its first commercial flight using Lincoln Standard L.S.5 "Tourabout" aircraft. Tuxpan Airport was also a stopover on the airline's first international flight, which departed from Mexico City to Brownsville, Texas, with stops in Tuxpan and Tampico respectively, using Ford Trimotor aircraft.[2][3]
During the postwar period, the airfield was named after Fausto Vega Santander, a World War II belligerent pilot born in Tuxpan. It is currently the main operations center for the Gulf Wing of the Mexican Naval Aviation and has an unlit paved runway oriented 07/25, 1,360 meters long and 28 meters wide, as well as concrete turn ramps at both ends and a 13,500-square-meter apron with up to 20 spaces for small aircraft. The airport is exclusively for military use.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ SEMAR (2025). "Directorio de bases navales" [Directory of naval bases] (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Se cumplieron 91 años del vuelo México-Tuxpan-Tampico, el primer vuelo de la aviación comercial en México y de la creación de Mexicana de Aviación" [91 years have passed since the Mexico-Tuxpan-Tampico flight, the first commercial aviation flight in Mexico and the creation of Mexicana de Aviación] (in Spanish). Expreso de Tuxpan. 2012-07-14. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
- ^ "Tuxpan cuna de la aviación comercial en México" [Tuxpan, the cradle of commercial aviation in Mexico] (in Spanish). Expreso de Tuxpan. 2011-05-17. Retrieved 2025-08-21.
- ^ "Bases Aereas / Airbases". IVAO Mexico - Special Operations Department. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ González, Celenne (2009-03-13). "Arriva primer vuelo comercial a Tuxpan" [First commercial flight arrives to Tuxpan] (in Spanish). Imagen del Golfo. Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Aeródromos de Veracruz" [Airfields in Veracruz] (in Spanish). Blogspot. Retrieved 2025-08-21.