Brasília International Airport

at Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília Estr. Parque Aeroporto, Lago Sul, Brasília , 71608-900 Brazil

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Brasília–Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport is an International airport serving Brasília, Brazil. Since 22 April 1999 the airport is named after Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (1902–1976), the 21st President of Brazil. It is located in the Lago Sul administrative region of the Federal District of Brazil. Some of its facilities are shared with the Brazilian Air Force. It is operated by InframericaHistoryBrasília was only a project when in 1956 President Juscelino Kubitschek landed for the first time in the Central Plateau. However, Vera Cruz Airport, built in 1955 by the then Deputy-Governor of Goiás, Bernardo Sayão, at the request of the chairman of the location of the New Federal Capital, Marechal José Pessoa, already existed. On 2 October 1955, the airport received the first crew of workers that would build the new capital. This facility was located where today is the Integrated Bus and Train Terminal of Brasília. It had a dirt runway of and a passenger terminal in a makeshift, cob-wall shack covered with buriti-leaves.This facility, however, was only temporary. The relocation to a definitive site had already been identified as a priority and construction works started on 6 November 1956. The works lasted for only over six months and required the clearing of an area of, of earthwork, base-stabilized, covering, topographical services, positioning and leveling. The runway was designed to have a length of but initially it had only, and was wide. The passenger terminal was built of wood. On 2 April 1957, the presidential aircraft landed for the first time at the site and the official inauguration took place on 3 May 1957. That year, on the same location the Brasília Air Force Base was also commissioned.

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Summary

Brasília International Airport is Brasília based place and this enity listed in Airport category. Located at Aeroporto Internacional de Brasília Estr. Parque Aeroporto, Lago Sul DF 71608-900. Contact phone number of Brasília International Airport: +55 61 3364-9000