Robinson Crusoe Airport | |
Icao: | SCIR |
Type: | Public |
City-Served: | Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile |
Elevation-F: | 466 |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
Coordinates: | -33.6667°N -78.9286°W |
Pushpin Map: | Chile |
Pushpin Label: | SCIR |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Robinson Crusoe Airport in Chile |
R1-Number: | 14/32 |
R1-Length-M: | 1005 |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
R2-Number: | 16/34 |
R2-Length-M: | 631 |
R2-Surface: | Dirt |
Footnotes: | Source: Landings.com[1] Google Maps GCM |
Robinson Crusoe Airport Spanish; Castilian: Aeródromo Robinson Crusoe, is an airport serving Robinson Crusoe Island, a Pacific island off the coast of Chile. The locale is one of the Juan Fernández Islands, being a portion of Chile's Valparaíso Region, and is from Valparaíso.
A non-directional beacon (Ident: IRC) was on the eastern part of the island, 5.5nmi east-northeast of the airport.[2] The beacon is likely decommissioned as it no longer listed on navigational charts.[3]
Commercially, the airport is mainly served by a handful of air-taxi companies flying from Santiago, largely in the January-February timeframe, and seldom outside the November-March period. Rainy and windy conditions which may impact landings or takeoffs can occur anytime on the calendar.
Because of a lack of interior roads, transfer between the airport and San Juan Bautista, the main town on Robinson Crusoe, required a 1.5 hour ride by motor launch.[4]