LEC — Coronel Horácio de Mattos Airport
Small airport in Lençóis, Brazil.
- IATA code
- LEC
- ICAO code
- SBLE
- Size
- small
- OurAirports class
- Passengers
- 8,967
- Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
- Nonstop routes
- 2
- With open traffic data
- Time zone
- UTC−3
- America/Bahia
- Elevation
- 511 m
- 1,677 ft
- Runways
- 1
- Longest 2,082 m
Local time now: —
More codes: airport codes starting with L
About LEC
Coronel Horácio de Mattos Airport is a small airport serving Lençóis, Brazil. 8,967 passengers used it in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Open traffic data shows 2 nonstop routes from LEC.
ANAC (CC BY). Sources
Busiest nonstop routes from LEC
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| LEC → SSA | 324 km | 7,766 |
| LEC → CNF | 842 km | 1,201 |
Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports, ANAC (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026) for routes in and out of Brazil. Routes outside these are not counted.
Nearest airports
| Code | Airport | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| VAL | Valença Airport | 264 km |
| VDC | Glauber de Andrade Rocha Airport | 273 km |
| SSA | Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport | 324 km |
| IOS | Bahia - Jorge Amado Airport | 355 km |
| PNZ | Senador Nilo Coelho Airport | 355 km |
Distance from LEC to the major hubs
Runways
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14/32 | 2,082 m | 30 m | Asphalt |
OurAirports (public domain). Sources
Location
Lençóis, Bahia, Brazil · -12.4823, -41.2770
Questions
Coronel Horácio de Mattos Airport has the IATA code LEC and the ICAO code SBLE. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.
LEC is a small airport in Lençóis, Bahia, Brazil, at -12.4823, -41.2770, 511 m above sea level.
LEC is in the America/Bahia time zone, UTC−3.
8,967 passengers in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026, according to ANAC, the Brazilian civil aviation agency (scheduled flights).
For travel agents: have an Amadeus booking? Read it in plain English with the free PNR converter.