Senador Nilo Coelho Airport

ICAO SBPL9.3624°S 40.5691°W385 m / 1,263 ftMedium airport

Senador Nilo Coelho Airport (IATA: PNZ, ICAO: SBPL) is a medium airport in Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil. It opened on 28 Oct 1981. It has one runway, 2,760 m (9,055 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Infraero. In 2022 it handled 421 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1981–1981

28 OCT 1981

OpenedSenador Nilo Coelho Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

13/31110° / 290°

LENGTH2,760 m9,055 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

368K

462K

460K

496K

448K

456K

502K

484K

387K

211K

299K

421K

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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

SSADeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International AirportBrazil · Gol Transportes Aéreos464 km288 mi RECRecife/Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil636 km395 mi GRUSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil, Gol Transportes Aéreos1,686 km1,048 mi

Most destinationsGol Transportes Aéreos 2LATAM Brasil 2

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers421K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,191of 3,974 · #104 South America · #41 BR Longest runway2,760 m9,055 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,715of 29,823 · =92 South America · #14 BR Elevation385 m1,263 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=14,250of 43,341 · =3,135 South America · =2,479 BR AgeOpened 19812026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=8,235of 15,079 · =121 South America · =64 BR Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =31 BR

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

1 channels

AFISRDO125.700