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
- 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.
Which jets can use this runway?
Based on published takeoff distances at maximum weight versus a 4,341 ft runway. Hot days, high elevation and wet runways reduce the margin.
✓ Comfortably
- 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 Ascend 3,660 ft
- Textron Aviation Citation XLS Gen2 3,600 ft
✕ Marginal or no
- 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