Rio Verde Airport

General Leite de Castro Airport Aeroporto General Leite de Castro
IATA: RVD – ICAO: SWLC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Rio Verde
Elevation AMSL	751 m / 2,464 ft
Coordinates	17°50′05″S 050°57′22″W / 17.83472°S 50.95611°WCoordinates: 17°50′05″S 050°57′22″W / 17.83472°S 50.95611°W
Map
RVD Location in Brazil
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03/21 1,500 4,921 Asphalt
Sources: World Aero Data,[1] ANAC[2]

General Leite de Castro Airport (IATA: RVD, ICAO: SWLC) is the airport serving Rio Verde, Brazil.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Azul Brazilian Airlines	Belo Horizonte-Pampulha, Goiânia, Uberlândia;Sao Paulo

Accidents and incidents

• 12 August 1952: a Viabras Douglas DC-3/C-47A-80-DL registration PP-ANH operated by Nacional en route from Rio Verde to Goiânia crashed following an in-flight bomb explosion at the location of Palmeira de Goiás. All 24 passengers and crew died.^[3][4]

Access

The airport is located 8 km (5 mi) from downtown Rio Verde.

See also

• List of airports in Brazil

References

1. "Rio Verde Airport Information". World Aero Data.
2. "Lista de aeródromos públicos" (in Portuguese). ANAC.
3. "Accident description PP-ANH". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
4. Germano da Silva, Carlos Ari César (2008). "Palmeiras de Goiás". O rastro da bruxa: história da aviação comercial brasileira no século XX através dos seus acidentes 1928-1996 (in Portuguese) (2 ed.). Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS. pp. 118–125. ISBN 978-85-7430-760-2.

External links

• Airport information for SWLC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
• Airport information for SWLC at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
• Current weather for SWLC at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for RVD at Aviation Safety Network