Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport
Former commercial airport that served Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1936–1942) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport in Araraquara, see Araraquara Airport.
For the current military use of this facility, see Santa Cruz Air Force Base.
Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport (IATA: SNZ, ICAO: SBSC) was a Brazilian airport built to handle the operations with the rigid airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg. The airport was named after Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão (1685–1724), a Portuguese priest born in Brazil who did research about transportation with balloons.
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Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport Aeroporto Bartolomeu de Gusmão | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner/Operator | Luftschiffbau Zeppelin | ||||||||||
Serves | Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||
Opened | 26 December 1936 (1936-12-26) | ||||||||||
Passenger services ceased | 12 February 1942 (1942-02-12) | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 3 m / 10 ft | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 22°55′56″S 043°43′09″W | ||||||||||
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Sources: World Aero Data[1] |
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