Santo Antônio, BR 🇧🇷 Closed Airport
BR-0029
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110 ft
BR-PA
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Local Code: Not available
Location: -0.963° N, -47.3542° E
Continent: SA
Type: Closed Airport
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Unknown, but evidence suggests it fell into disuse gradually during the 2010s. Satellite imagery shows a well-defined airstrip in the early 2000s, which becomes progressively overgrown and unmaintained by the late 2010s. As a private airstrip, it likely never had an official, publicly recorded closure date but was simply abandoned by its owner.
Presumed to be economic reasons and operational obsolescence. This airstrip was a private 'aeródromo' serving a local agricultural operation (likely a 'fazenda' or palm oil plantation). Its closure was likely due to the high cost of maintenance and aircraft operation relative to its benefit, the sale or closure of the farm it served, or a shift to more modern agricultural methods like ground-based machinery or drones for crop management.
The site is currently an abandoned and unserviceable airstrip. Satellite imagery clearly shows the former dirt/grass runway being reclaimed by vegetation and erosion. It is completely overgrown and unusable for any type of aircraft. The land remains part of the surrounding agricultural plantations in the municipality of Santo Antônio do Tauá, and the former runway is now just an open track within the farm property.
The airport, more accurately a private airstrip, had no major historical significance in a national or regional context. Its importance was purely local and private. It was built to support agricultural aviation ('aviação agrícola') in a remote rural area. Operations would have consisted of small, single-engine aircraft used for crop dusting, spraying pesticides/fertilizers on the surrounding plantations (visibly palm oil), and possibly for light transport of personnel and supplies to and from the farm. It was never a public airport and did not handle commercial passenger or cargo traffic.
There are no known or published plans to reopen or re-certify this airstrip. Reopening would be entirely at the discretion of the private landowner and would require significant investment to clear the land, rebuild the runway surface, and meet modern regulatory standards set by Brazil's National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC). Given the likely high costs and the availability of alternative technologies for agriculture, the prospect of it reopening is extremely low.
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