| Nicoya Guanacaste Airport | |
| Iata: | NCT |
| Icao: | MRNC |
| Type: | Public |
| Operator: | DGAC |
| City-Served: | Nicoya, Costa Rica |
| Elevation-F: | 394 |
| Coordinates: | 10.1394°N -85.4458°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Costa Rica |
| Pushpin Label: | NCT |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Costa Rica |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 10/28 |
| R1-Length-M: | 965 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Stat-Year: | 2014 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 96 |
| Stat2-Header: | Passenger change 13–14 |
| Stat2-Data: | 2.0% |
| Footnotes: | Source: DGAC[1] [2] SkyVector[3] Google Maps[4] |
Nicoya Airport is an airport serving the city of Nicoya in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica. The airport is owned and managed by the country's Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
The asphalt runway is long, and has very basic facilities to receive small airplanes and passengers. There are nearby hills south and west of the runway.
The Liberia VOR-DME (Ident: LIB) is located 27.9nmi north-northwest of the airport.[5]
Although Nicoya Airport serves the main city in the Nicoya Peninsula, there are no scheduled domestic or international service to the airport.
These data show number of passengers movements into the airport, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica's Statistical Yearbooks.
| Year | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers | 129 | 112 | 110 | 106 | 131 | 98 | 96 | T.B.A. | |
| Growth (%) | 56.86% | 13.18% | 1.79% | 3.64% | 23.58% | 25.19% | 2.04% | T.B.A. | |
| Source: Costa Rica's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Statistical Yearbooks (Years 2008,[6] 2009,[7] 2010,[8] 2011,[9] 2012,[10] 2013,[11] and 2014[12]) | |||||||||
| Year | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Passengers | N.D. | N.D. | 30 | 172 | 190 | 144 | 348 | 299 | |
| Growth (%) | N.D. | N.D. | N.D. | 473.33% | 10.47% | 24.21% | 141.67% | 14.08% | |
| Source: Costa Rica's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC). Statistical Yearbooks (Years 2000-2005,[13] 2006,[14] and 2007,[15]) | |||||||||