MX-1483
Mexico City Texcoco Airport
VFR
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Name
Mexico City Texcoco Airport
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ICAO
MX-1483
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Timezone
3:40 am (CST)
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Municipality
Mexico City
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Coordinates
19° 30′ 0″ N 98° 59′ 49″ W
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Elevation
7’332 ft (2’235 m MSL)
About Mexico City Texcoco Airport
Mexico City Texcoco Airport was a planned airport in Mexico City that was meant to become Mexico's New International Airport (Spanish: Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de México—NAICM or NAIM). The project was announced in September 2014 but was canceled in late 2018 after a referendum was held stating that the new airport should be built at a different location due to how close it was to housing, rising cost and a geographical issue with the site.
Texcoco Airport was first announced by President Enrique Peña Nieto in his State of the Union Address on 2 September 2014. It was billed as Mexico's largest public infrastructure work in a century, and was set to replace Mexico City's current Benito Juárez International Airport.
In October 2018, while construction was already taking place, a non-binding referendum was organized by then President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in which almost 70 percent of the 1.067 million voters rejected the planned airport, choosing instead to build a new airport on the grounds of Santa Lucía Air Force Base. Felipe Ángeles International Airport opened in March 2022.
Construction continued for several weeks, but was suspended on 27 December 2018 after López Obrador took office. In 2020, the government of Mexico announced that they would convert the 12,000-hectare (46 sq mi) space where the airport was being built into the Lake Texcoco Ecological Park, which will be a public space and an area of ecological restoration.