Punta Islita Airport

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Islita Airport
Summary
Airport typePrivate
Serves Punta Islita, Costa Rica
LocationCorozalito
Elevation  AMSL 7 ft / 2 m
Coordinates 9°51′25″N85°22′15″W / 9.85694°N 85.37083°W / 9.85694; -85.37083 Coordinates: 9°51′25″N85°22′15″W / 9.85694°N 85.37083°W / 9.85694; -85.37083
Website Punta Islita Airport
Map
Costa Rica location map.svg
Airplane silhouette.svg
PBP
Location in Costa Rica
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
03/211,0303,379Asphalt
Statistics (2014)
Passengers [1] 2,766
Passenger change 13–14Increase2.svg51.2%
Source: AIP [2] GCM [3] Google Maps [4] SkyVector [5]

Islita Airport( IATA : PBP, ICAO : MRIA) is an airport that serves the communities of Punta Islita in the Nandayure Canton of Costa Rica. The airport is at the village of Corozalito, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) east of Punta Islita. It is the main access to a series of secluded beaches in southern Nicoya Peninsula.

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ICAO airport code four-letter code designating many airports around the world

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Punta Islita is a resort town with secluded beaches in the Nandayure Canton, Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. The Punta Islita Airport is located in a nearby town of Corozalito.

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The runway is in a coastal valley leading into mountainous terrain, and has a 30 feet (9.1 m) rise from south to north. There is rising terrain in all quadrants except the south, which is the Pacific Ocean shore. The Liberia VOR-DME (Ident: LIB) is located 45.5 nautical miles (84 km) north-northwest of the airport. [6]

Pacific Ocean Ocean between Asia and Australia in the west, the Americas in the east and Antarctica or the Southern Ocean in the south.

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.

The airport is owned by a private administrator and currently has four weekly scheduled flights from San José and Nosara.

Juan Santamaría International Airport Airport in Costa Rica

Juan Santamaría International Airport is the primary airport serving San José, the capital of Costa Rica. The airport is located in the city of Alajuela, 20 km west of downtown San José. It is named after Costa Rica's national hero, Juan Santamaría, a courageous drummer boy who died in 1856 defending his country against forces led by US-American filibuster William Walker.

Nosara Airport airport in Costa Rica

Nosara Airport is an airport serving Nosara, a village in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. The airport is approximately 15 minutes from the beaches of Nosara, the main tourist attraction in the area. The airport is owned and administrated by the country's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC).

On December 31, 2017, a plane operated by Nature Air crashed shortly after takeoff from Punta Islita.

Airlines and destinations

There are currently no scheduled operations at the airport.

Charter services

Passenger Statistics

These data show number of passengers movements into the airport, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica's Statistical Yearbooks.

Year20082009201020112012201320142015
Passengers3,8862,0292,1562,1521,8641,8292,766T.B.A.
Growth (%)Decrease2.svg 22.25%Decrease2.svg 47.79%Increase2.svg 6.26%Decrease2.svg 0.19%Decrease2.svg 13.38%Decrease2.svg 1.88%Increase2.svg 51.23%T.B.A.
Source: Costa Rica's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Statistical Yearbooks
(Years 2008, [7] [8] [9] 2011, [10] 2012, [11] 2013, [12] and 2014 [1] )
Year20002001200220032004200520062007
Passengers1,5501,7782,1303,3934,7663,8043,3764,998
Growth (%)N.A.Increase2.svg 14.71%Increase2.svg 19.80%Increase2.svg 59.30%Increase2.svg 40.47%Decrease2.svg 20.18%Decrease2.svg 11.25%Increase2.svg 48.05%
Source: Costa Rica's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Statistical Yearbooks
(Years 2000-2005, [13] 2006, [14] and 2007, [15] )

See also

Transport in Costa Rica

There are many modes of transport in Costa Rica but the country's infrastructure has suffered from a lack of maintenance and new investment. There is an extensive road system of more than 30,000 kilometers, although much of it is in disrepair; this also applies to ports, railways and water delivery systems. According to a 2016 U.S. government report, investment from China which attempted to improve the infrastructure found the "projects stalled by bureaucratic and legal concerns".

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Nature Air Flight 9916 was a 40-minute chartered domestic passenger flight from Punta Islita Airport in Nandayure, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, to Costa Rica's capital San José that crashed on 31 December 2017 shortly after takeoff killing all 12 people onboard. The flight was operated by Costa Rican airline Nature Air using a Cessna 208 Caravan with 10 passengers, mostly tourists, and 2 crew members onboard. The plane crashed into mountainous terrain near the Punta Islita Airport.

References

  1. 1 2 DGAC Yearbook 2014 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Aeronautical Information Publication (AIP) of Costa Rica, Section III (Airstrips) Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Airport information for Islita Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
  4. ↑ Google Maps - Punta Islita
  5. ↑ "Islita/ Nandayure Airport". SkyVector. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  6. ↑ "Liberia VOR". Our Airports. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  7. ↑ DGAC Yearbook 2009 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine ,
  8. ↑ DGAC Yearbook 2010 Archived 2016-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ DGAC Yearbook 2010 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ DGAC Yearbook 2011 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ↑ DGAC Yearbook 2012 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ DGAC Yearbook 2013 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Oficina de Planificación, DGAC de Costa Rica
  14. ↑ DGAC Yearbook 2006 Archived 2016-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ↑ DGAC Yearbook 2007 Archived 2016-01-26 at the Wayback Machine
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