Belo Horizonte Airport / Carlos Prates is an airport in the municipality of Belo Horizonte. It began its activities in January 1944, in order to serve the Aeroclube do Estado de Minas Gerais, founded on November 6, 1936 at Pampulha Airport. The purpose of the aeroclub has always been to train staff for civil and military aviation.
Carlos Prates Airport is designed to serve non-scheduled flights by Air Taxi, General Aviation, flight instruction aircraft (pilot training) and rotary wing aviation (helicopters) companies. The Airport has maintenance, hangar and aircraft construction companies (advanced ultralights).
Carlos Prates Airport, which despite having the name of a neighboring neighborhood, is located at Rua Ocidental, nº 100 in the Padre Eustáquio neighborhood, approximately 6 km northwest of the city center of Belo Horizonte – MG.
It operates from sunrise to sunset (HJ).
Fixed and rotary wing aviation schools are installed and in operation at the airport, in addition to the Aeroclube do Estado de Minas Gerais, responsible for training aviation professionals.
* There is a notice for this airport to be deactivated on 06/04/2023
