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Serves
  
Los Roques archipelago

07/25
  
840

2,756
  
Asphalt

Code
  
LRV

Elevation AMSL
  
10 ft / 3 m

840
  
2,756

Address
  
Gran Roque, Venezuela

Elevation
  
0 cm

Los Roques Airport

Location
  
Gran Roque island, Venezuela

Aterrisagem no aeroporto de los roques venezuela landing in los roques airport


Los Roques Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Los Roques) (IATA: LRV, ICAO: SVRS) – a small domestic airport on the El Gran Roque island in the Los Roques archipelago off the coast of mainland Venezuela, some 130 kilometres (81 mi) north of Caracas.

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The runway was repaved in 2007. Air traffic is controlled remotely from Simón Bolívar International Airport.

The Gran Roque VOR-DME (Ident: LRS) is located on the field.

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Incidents and accidents

  • On 4 January 2008 at 14:08 UTC a Transaven airlines Let L-410UVP-E3 on a scheduled domestic flight from Caracas, to Los Roques Airport, crashed into the ocean. See: 2008 Los Roques archipelago Transaven Let L-410 crash
  • The 2013 Venezuela Transaereo 5074 Britten-Norman Islander crash happened after a Transaereo 5074 airlines airplane took off from Los Roques towards Caracas Airport, crashing into the ocean a few miles from Los Roques Airport, killing all 6 occupants.

    • References

    Los Roques Airport Wikipedia
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