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Airport record

Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport

Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Scheduled service reported12,000+ ft runway
WGS 84 position -22.81000°, -43.25056° Open map
FIELD ELEVATION 28 ft MSL

9 metres

REPORTED OPEN RUNWAYS 2

2 reported lighted

LONGEST REPORTED 13,123 ft

4,000 metres · 10/28

PUBLISHED COMMS 6

Source records

Runway geometry

Reported runway surfaces

TRUE headings
Runway Dimensions Surface Heading (true) Lighting Status
10/28 13,123 × 148 ft4,000 × 45 m Concrete 74.0° / 254.0° east–west Reported lighted Reported open
15/33 10,433 × 154 ft3,180 × 47 m Asphalt 125.0° / 305.0° northwest–southeast Reported lighted Reported open

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Runway ends

Published end data

Each runway end is listed separately. Headings are true; elevations are MSL. A dash means the source did not publish a value—not zero.

Runway-end identifiers, parent runways, true headings, elevations, displaced thresholds, and published coordinates
End Runway True heading End elevation Displaced threshold Coordinates
10 LE · low-numbered end 10/28 Reported open 74.0°T 16 ft MSL5 m Not published -22.80180°, -43.25520° Open end map ↗
28 HE · high-numbered end 10/28 Reported open 254.0°T 28 ft MSL9 m Not published -22.79220°, -43.21770° Open end map ↗
15 LE · low-numbered end 15/33 Reported open 125.0°T 16 ft MSL5 m 612 ft187 m -22.81240°, -43.26370° Open end map ↗
33 HE · high-numbered end 15/33 Reported open 305.0°T 11 ft MSL3 m 375 ft114 m -22.82910°, -43.23850° Open end map ↗

Communications

Published frequencies

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TypeFrequencyDescription
APP 119.350 MHz RIO APP
ATIS 127.600 MHz ATIS
CLD 121.000 MHz CLNC DEL
GND 121.650 MHz GND
OPS 122.500 MHz OPS
TWR 118.000 MHz TWR

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Nearby airports

All in Brazil
CodeAirportDistance & bearingLongest runway
SBGR São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportSão Paulo 182 NM336 km · W · 258° true 12,139 ft
SBCF Tancredo Neves International AirportBelo Horizonte 195 NM361 km · N · 348° true 11,811 ft
SBBR Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International AirportBrasília 494 NM914 km · NW · 327° true 10,827 ft
SGES Guaraní International AirportCiudad del Este 654 NM1,212 km · W · 254° true 11,154 ft
SBSV Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International AirportSalvador 658 NM1,218 km · NE · 26° true 9,859 ft
SUMU Carrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International AirportCiudad de la Costa 985 NM1,823 km · SW · 220° true 10,499 ft

Source & provenance

Data source

Airport, runway, and frequency records come from the OurAirports Public Domain dataset snapshot dated . Missing values remain missing; Runway Almanac does not invent them.