SMA
Santa Maria Airport

Santa Maria Airport (IATA: SMA, ICAO: LPAZ) is a medium airport in Vila do Porto, Autonomous Region of Azores, Portugal. It opened on 26 Jul 1945. It has one runway, 3,048 m (10,000 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by ANA – Aeroportos de Portugal. In 2025 it handled 126 thousand passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1945–198926 JUL 1945
OpenedSanta Maria Airport opens.
08 FEB 1989
DisasterIndependent Air Flight 1851.144 killed
From Wikidata and WikipediaEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap18/36171° / 351° · LIT
LENGTH3,048 m10,000 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2003–202554K
46K
91K
100K
93K
108K
57K
80K
109K
120K
127K
126K
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Routes
2 destinations · 1 countryMost destinationsSATA Air Açores 1Azores Airlines 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SMA. From the Wikipedia article “Santa Maria Airport (Azores)” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
6 channelsA/GA/G301.600
A/GA/G1130.900
ACCCON132.150
APPAPP119.000
RDORDO127.900
TWRTWR118.100