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Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport

ICAO SAWG51.6088°S 69.3089°W19 m / 61 ftLarge airport
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Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport (IATA: RGL, ICAO: SAWG) is a large airport in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. It has one runway, 2,750 m (9,022 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina. In 2025 it handled 132 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
08/26086° / 266° · LIT
LENGTH2,750 m9,022 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025
245K
290K
255K
248K
232K
251K
69K
91K
200K
235K
180K
132K
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Routes

6 destinations · 3 countries
Most destinationsLíneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE) 4LATAM Chile 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from RGL. From the Wikipedia article “Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport” (revision of 11 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers132K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,717of 3,974 · #159 South America · #26 ARLongest runway2,750 m9,022 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,734of 29,823 · #96 South America · #17 ARElevation19 m61 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,599of 43,341 · =8,329 South America · #731 ARRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =95 AR
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
APPAPP/TWR119.100
ATISATIS116.700
RDORDO122.100
TCACON124.700