San José Airport (Guatemala)

San José Airport (IATA: GSJ, ICAO: MGSJ) (Aeropuerto de Puerto San José, Escuintla) serves the city of Puerto San José, the recreative town of Monterrico, the port of Puerto Quetzal and the eastern Guatemalan Pacific coast. It is operated and administrated by DGAC - Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil de Guatemala. San José Airport is in the western part of the city of Puerto San José, near the Pacific coast.

This article is about the airport at Puerto de San José, Escuintla in Guatemala. For other airports, see San Jose Airport (disambiguation).
San José Airport
Summary
Airport typeMilitary/Public
OperatorDGAC
ServesPuerto San José, Guatemala
Elevation AMSL29 ft / 9 m
Coordinates13°56′10″N 90°50′09″W
Map
MGSJ
MGSJ
Location in Guatemala
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
15/33 2,010 6,594 Asphalt
Soure: GCM[1] WAD[2] Google Maps[3]

Facilities

The airport has been recently refurbished and reopened in September 2007, as part of a nationwide airport rehabilitation program. Improvements include:

  • a newly built 2,500 m2 (27,000 sq ft) terminal building with car park[4]
  • a newly built tower
  • newly asphalted an amplified runway with illumination and signage

As at 5 December 2008 there is no new control tower nor is there runway or approach lighting.

The San Jose VOR-DME (Ident: SJO) is located on the field.[5][6]

Airlines

See also

References
  1. Airport information for MGSJ at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. Airport information for MGSJ at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
  3. Google Maps - San José
  4. Terminal building
  5. SkyVector Aeronautical Charts
  6. SJO VOR
  7. Transportes Aéreos Guatemaltecos Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine


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