Approaching Quito

Welcome to the 'old' Quito Airport (SEQU), which was notorious for its nerve-wrecking landings! No longer operational, this airport is (was) right in the middle of the city of Quito, making it one of the highest and most challenging airports in the world! This scenery saves a little piece of aviation history in the flight simulator world.

This Quito airport scenery is a highly accurate rendition of the airport the way it was during its final days of operation. Photos from those times were used to create particularly detailed terminal buildings and textures of the surroundings. Hand-drawn elevation mesh ensures that the hills and slopes near the runway are presented in a lifelike way, and the airport fits almost seamlessly into the default scenery thanks to custom landclass data.

Opened in 1960, 'Mariscal Sucre International Airport' was the largest airport in Ecuador and one of the busiest in South America. Since 2000 it served as the main hub for TAME. Its location within the city and surrounded by mountains impeded expansion and caused several, sometimes severe, incidents during approaches. The airport ceased operations on February 19, 2013, moving them to the new airport of the same name located outside Quito’s borders.

• Historically accurate model of the airport and its buildings
• High definition passenger terminal building, carefully modelled from reference photos taken while the airport was still in operation
• Highly detailed apron ground textures, with aircraft type markings at gates as they were during the final days of operation
• Immediate airport surroundings and industrial areas
• Custom 'Quito style' landclass with autogen annotation around the airport to improve blending with the default scenery
• Hand-drawn elevation mesh to realistically depict the hill and slope just north of Runway 17/35
• 'Vintage' data set for NavdataPro - available to download here (259MB). This old cycle includes the last published Nav Data of the old Quito airport. Please note that this cycle will overwrite the current one. If you wish to go back to the present data cycle you can do this at any time through the NavDataPro app.