Dom Ricardo Weberberger Airport | |
Nativename: | Portuguese: Aeroporto Dom Ricardo Weberberger|italic=yes |
Iata: | BRA |
Icao: | SNBR |
Lid: | BA0011 |
Type: | Public |
City-Served: | Barreiras |
Timezone: | BRT |
Metric-Elev: | yes |
Elevation-F: | 2,451 |
Elevation-M: | 747 |
Coordinates: | -12.0792°N -45.0094°W |
Pushpin Map: | Brazil |
Pushpin Label: | BRA |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Brazil |
Metric-Rwy: | yes |
R1-Number: | 08/26 |
R1-Length-F: | 5,249 |
R1-Length-M: | 1,600 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
Stat2-Header: | Aircraft Operations |
Stat3-Header: | Metric tonnes of cargo |
Footnotes: | Sources: ANAC,[1] DECEA[2] |
Dom Ricardo Weberberger Airport is the airport serving Barreiras, Brazil.
The airport was commissioned in 1940 and served as a strategic technical stop on the route Rio de Janeiro-Miami, enabling faster flights as compared with the ones operated via the coast. Furthermore, because of the existence of a river and a railway, fuel was easily transported to the site. During World War II the airport became a United States Air Force Base but after 1945 it returned to its original civil vocation.
The airport is located 14km (09miles) from downtown Barreiras.