Octavio Moura Andrade Municipal Airport , often referred to as São Pedro Airport, is the airport serving São Pedro, Brazil, located nearly from downtown São Pedro and from the center of Águas de São Pedro. It is operated by the municipality of São Pedro.
History
The airfield was inaugurated in 6 February 1938 and is dedicated to general aviation. It began to be built in 1936 on the initiative of Octavio Moura Andrade, who intended to bring help to build a hotel, and subsequently tourists to what would later become the Grande Hotel in the city of Águas de São Pedro. In 28 July 1940, the first great flight to São Pedro, organized by Octavio Moura Andrade to pay homage to his brother Antonio Joaquim de Moura Andrade, had occurred. Seventy-eight aircraft from flying clubs of the state of São Paulo, and Brazilian Army aircraft from the Campo de Marte Airport and Santos Naval Air Base attended the celebration. The second great flight to São Pedro have been held in the airfield from 19 to 21 April 1947, with the intention of gathering aviators from Brazil to create the União Brasileira de Aviadores Civis. To promote the convention, several "advertisement squadrons" flew to various cities in the country. In 1951, the Federal Law no.1,372 and the São Paulo State Law no.1,137 declared the Brazilian Union of Civil Aviators to be of public utility. The Revoada Pan-Americana have been held in the airfield from 17 to 20 August 1950, with approximately 350 aircraft attending to the event, coming from Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and the Brazilian Army and flying clubs. Several aeronautical military exercises such as simulation of bombings and parachuting were performed. The so-called Águas de São Pedro Airfield had through the Decree no.002/Department of Civil Aviation/6 January 1971 its opening to the publicair traffic homologated, and the authoritative order was updated by the Decree of the Department of Civil Aviation no.097/Operations Subdepartment, of 5 March 1996. The private airport was expropriated by the state government in 1949. The municipality of São Pedro received from the state government the airport as a donation in 1996. The airport has undergone renovation in 2009, after being interdicted for six years. In 1 December 2012, the airport was named after its founder.
Infrastructure
The airport spans, and have only one runway of dirt with length of, width of, and resistance of 5600 kg/0.50 mPa. There is no ALS. Just Fly, a distribution company of the CTLS and MC aircraft models from Flight Design in Brazil have its headquarters in the property. AirBrasil, a hot air ballooning company also operates in the airfield. The airport fueling station is operated by Shell Aviation.
Airlines and destinations
No scheduled flights operate at this airport.
Ground transportation
The only way to access the airport is through the SP-304 highway.
