Otú Airport Alberto Jaramillo Sanchez Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Aerocivil | ||||||||||
| Serves | Remedios, Colombia | ||||||||||
| Location | Otú | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,060 ft / 628 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 7°00′37″N74°42′55″W / 7.01028°N 74.71528°W Coordinates: 7°00′37″N74°42′55″W / 7.01028°N 74.71528°W | ||||||||||
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  OTU Location of the airport in Colombia | |||||||||||
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Otú Airport (Spanish : Aeropuerto de Otú) ( IATA : OTU, ICAO : SKOT) is an airport located in the village of Otú and serving the town of Remedios, a municipality of the Antioquia Department in Colombia. It is also known as Alberto Jaramillo Sanchez Airport.
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Currently only Aerolínea de Antioquia operates from this airport, with two daily flights on Twin Otter aircraft to Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellín. Previously, the airline ACES flew between this airport and Medellin several times per day on aircraft including the Let L-410 Turbolet, Cessna 206 and Twin Otter. The airport's runway is also used as a small military base for the Air Force and National Police.
ADA S.A., operating as Aerolínea de Antioquia (ADA), was a regional airline headquartered at the Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellín, Colombia. It started operations in 1987. It ceased operations on March 29, 2019 The airline operates scheduled domestic services from Medellín to over 20 destinations. Its main base is Olaya Herrera Airport.
Medellín, officially the Municipality of Medellín, is the second-largest city in Colombia, after Bogota, and the capital of the department of Antioquia. It is located in the Aburrá Valley, a central region of the Andes Mountains in South America. According to the National Administrative Department of Statistics, the city has an estimated population of 2.5 million as of 2017. With its surrounding area that includes nine other cities, the metropolitan area of Medellín is the second-largest urban agglomeration in Colombia in terms of population and economy, with more than 3.7 million people.
ACES was an airline with its headquarters in the Edificio del Cafe in Medellín, Colombia and founded on August 30, 1971, by a group of 13 Colombian entrepreneurs, amongst them, most notably Orlando Botero Escobar and German Peñaloza Arias from Manizales and Luis H. Coulson, Jorge Coulson R., Alberto Jaramillo and Hernán Zuluaga from Medellín.
