Colombian Civil Aviation Authority

Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia
Unidad Administrativa Especial de
Aeronáutica Civil
Agency overview
Formed30 December 1993 (1993-12-30)
Preceding agency
  • Civil Aviation Department
HeadquartersAvenida El Dorado 103-15
Bogotá, Colombia
Annual budgetCOP$587,487,600,000 (2012)[1]
COP$707,471,297,562 (2013)[2]
COP$921,685,751,000 (2014)[3]
Agency executives
  • Jair Orlando Fajardo Fajardo, Director
  • Col Alfonso Lozano Ariza,
    Deputy Director
Parent agencyMinistry of Transport
Websitewww.aerocivil.gov.co
Aerocivil headquarters at El Dorado International Airport

The Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia (Spanish: Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil, also known as Aeronáutica Civil, Aerocivil or UAEAC) is a government agency of the Colombian Ministry of Transport. It is the agency in charge of regulating civil aviation, the aviation industry, and of managing the Colombian airspace.[4] Aerocivil is also in charge of managing and controlling all of Colombia's public airports. It is headquartered in the new Aerocivil building on the property of El Dorado International Airport.[5][6] Previously it was located on the fourth floor of the main terminal building of the airport.[7][8]

  1. ^ Colombia, Congress of (14 December 2011). "Ley 1485 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 283). Bogotá: 10. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. ^ Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 640). Bogotá: 12. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. ^ Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (49, 001). Bogotá: 21. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Objetivos Institucionales". Nuestra Entidad (in Spanish). Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
  5. ^ "Inicio Archived 2011-04-15 at the Wayback Machine." Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia. Retrieved on January 26, 2011. "Av. El Dorado 103-15 Nuevo Edificio Aerocivil - Bogotá, D. C."
  6. ^ "Oficinas y Dependencias Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine." Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia. Retrieved on January 26, 2011. "Sede Central Dirección: Aeropuerto El Dorado."
  7. ^ "Docket No. OST-2008- Regulations, gov. 3/37. Retrieved on January 26, 2011. "The government authority with competent jurisdiction over AIRES is the Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil ("UAEAC") de Colombia. The address of UAEAC is as follows: Aeropuerto El Dorado Piso 4 - Bogotá D.C. 211.20(b).
  8. ^ "Quality Policy Archived 2011-08-25 at the Wayback Machine." Civil Aviation Authority of Colombia. Retrieved on January 26, 2011. "© 2007-2010 Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil - UAEAC Aeropuerto El Dorado Piso 4 - Bogotá, D. C.."