Corumbá International Airport

Coordinates: 19°00′43″S 057°40′17″W / 19.01194°S 57.67139°W / -19.01194; -57.67139
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Corumbá International Airport

Aeroporto Internacional de Corumbá
Landside of the terminal
Summary
Airport typePublic
Operator
Serves
AMSL
141 m / 463 ft
Coordinates19°00′43″S 057°40′17″W / 19.01194°S 57.67139°W / -19.01194; -57.67139
Map
CMG is located in Brazil
CMG
CMG
Location in Brazil
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
09/27 1,500 4,921 Asphalt
Statistics (2023)
Passengers33,650 Decrease 32%
Aircraft Operations1,571 Decrease 22%
Metric tonnes of cargo117 Increase 10%
Statistics: AENA[1]
Sources: ANAC,[2] DECEA[3]

Corumbá International Airport (IATA: CMG, ICAO: SBCR) is the airport serving Corumbá, Brazil.

The airport is operated by AENA.

History

Corumbá International Airport is the second most important airport of Mato Grosso do Sul, just behind Campo Grande International Airport. Built on a site of 290 ha, it has capacity for medium size planes like a Boeing 737 or Fokker 100.

The airport was one of the first to be built outside Brazilian main centers. On September 8, 1933,

Junkers. The connection between São Paulo and Corumbá was completed in 6 to 7 hours, and on the next day, the hydroplane would make the Corumbá/Cuiabá route, returning on the following day. This wait plus the connecting services with LAB forced the tri-engine Junkers 52 to wait for more than two days in Corumbá to return to São Paulo. For this reason, in 1937 the federal government built by the air-strip a hangar with a width of 35 meters to shelter the repair work of the Junkers that had nearly 30 meters of wingspan. The hangar built with concrete and wood planks had small workshops
and a passenger lobby.

On September 21, 1960, the present terminal was opened and in 1999 the whole airport complex was expanded: the passenger terminal was enlarged from 1,600m² to 2,400m², and the runway from 1,660x30m to 2,000x45m. In 2007 it received some repairs and further expansion.

Previously operated by Infraero, on August 18, 2022, the consortium AENA won a 30-year concession to operate the airport.[4]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Azul Brazilian Airlines Bonito, Campinas, Campo Grande

Accidents and incidents

  • 20 August 1953:
    Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando registration PP-ITD crashed and caught fire during an emergency landing at Corumbá. Three crew members died and one survived.[5][6]

Access

The airport is located 3 km (2 mi) from downtown Corumbá.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Estatísticas". AENA Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 January 2024.
  2. ^ "Aeródromos". ANAC (in Portuguese). 15 October 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Corumbá (SBCR)". DECEA (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  4. ^ "Única empresa a apresentar proposta, Aena leva Aeroporto de Congonhas". Agência Brasil (in Portuguese). 18 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Accident description PP-ITD". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved May 24, 2011.
  6. ^ Pereira, Aldo (1987). Breve História da Aviação Comercial Brasileira (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Europa. p. 306.

External links

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