Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont Airport SBRJ / SDU
Downtown Rio's bayside airport, ten minutes from Centro and 20 from Copacabana, with a spectacular approach over Sugarloaf. Short runways restrict it to smaller jets, slots are scarce, and there is no customs, so international flights clear at Galeão. Líder's FBO and a helipad on site.
4,341 ft
Longest runway
10 min
Drive to Rio de Janeiro
1
FBOs / handlers
11 ft
Elevation
Facts
- Hours
- 06:00–23:00 (curfew)
- 24-hour operations
- No
- Customs & immigration
- No
- Prior permission (PPR)
- Yes
- Slot coordination
- Yes
- Noise curfew
- Yes
- Runway surface
- asphalt
- Fuel type
- Jet A-1
- Helipad
- Yes
- Distance to centre
- 2 km
- Typical largest aircraft
- Light to super-midsize jets (Phenom 300, Legacy 500, Challenger 350); short runway and domestic only.
Private terminals (FBOs)
- Líder Aviação Santos Dumont
An FBO is the private terminal: lounge, crew, fuel, customs desk. You drive up, walk 30 metres, and board.
Compare published takeoff distances
Initial comparison of published takeoff distances and runway length (4,341 ft). Confirm aircraft suitability and current restrictions with the operator.
Within the screening threshold
- Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 500 4,084 ft
- Embraer Executive Jets Legacy 450 3,907 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Latitude 3,580 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Sovereign+ 3,530 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Sovereign 3,640 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation Ascend 3,800 ft
Above the screening threshold
- Embraer Executive Jets Praetor 500 needs 4,222 ft
- Bombardier Learjet 70 needs 4,230 ft
- Dassault Aviation Falcon 2000S needs 4,325 ft
Other airports for Rio de Janeiro
- Jacarepaguá Airport SBJR 2,952 ft · 50 min
- Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport SBGL 13,123 ft · 40 min
What it costs to fly here privately
Sources and credits
- Rio de Janeiro Santos Dumont Airport · Mariordo (Mario Roberto Duran Ortiz) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons