ILS

Ilopango International Airport

ICAO MSSS13.6995°N 89.1199°W618 m / 2,027 ftMedium airport
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Ilopango International Airport (IATA: ILS, ICAO: MSSS) is a medium airport in San Salvador, San Salvador Department, El Salvador. It opened in 1923. It has one runway, 2,240 m (7,349 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 8 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1923–1923
1923
OpenedIlopango International Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Museo Nacional de Aviación Tcnel. PA Jose Roberto Corleto Andrade
15/33154° / 334° · LIT
LENGTH2,240 m7,349 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2012–2022
10K
10K
12K
18K
18K
15K
9K
8K
1214151617181922

Routes

4 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsTransportes Aéreos Guatemaltecos 3CM Airlines 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ILS. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Ilopango International Airport” (revision of 13 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers8K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,771of 3,974 · #692 North America · #2 SVLongest runway2,240 m7,349 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,206of 29,823 · =709 North America · #2 SVElevation618 m2,027 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=8,755of 43,341 · #4,002 North America · #2 SVAgeOpened 19232026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=216of 15,079 · =32 North America · #1 SVRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =1 SV
Scale: 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

4 channels
APPAPP119.500
GNDGND121.900
RDORDO127.050
TWRTWR118.300