Santos Dumont Airport
Santos Dumont Airport serves
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. It is the city's second major
airport behind the
Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport. The Airport is destinated mainly for premium traffic and formerly international. Santos Dumont Airport is located only 2 km from the city's downtown. The name of the airport honours aviation pioneer
Alberto Santos-Dumont. Currently, it is administered by
Infraero. The airport was Rio de Janeiro's first airport, initially intended for international and transcontinental flights. It was built by architects MMM Roberto (Marcelo, Milton and Mauricio Roberto Doria-Baptista) on reclaimed land, leaving no space for expansion. Its pioneering modernistic architectural features made it into a Brazilian national landmark. It is one of the most heavily crowded among Brazilian airports, with approximately 2.3 million passengers per year, mainly business travelers.
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Aéroport Santos Dumont
Aeroporto Santos Dumont
Santos Dumont é um
aeroporto brasileiro do Estado do
Rio de Janeiro, inaugurado em
1936.No Rio de Janeiro, o transporte comercial empregando hidroaviões utilizava o atracadouro da Ponta do Calabouço. A aviação de pouso e decolagem terrestre, ainda insipiente, aproveitava o Campo de Manguinhos e os aparelhos militares da Aeronáutica e Marinha usavam, respectivamente, o chamado Campo dos Afonsos e o do Galeão.
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Santos Dumont Airport
Airport Name: Santos Dumont Airport
Airport Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IATA Code: SDU
ICAO Code: SBRJ
Airport Name: Santos Dumont Airport
Airport Location: Parnaiba, Piaui, Brazil
IATA Code: PHB
ICAO Code: SBPB