# Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (SAB / TNCS)

**Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport** (IATA: SAB, ICAO: TNCS) is a medium airport in Zion's Hill, Saba, Caribbean Netherlands. It opened in 1963. It has one runway, 400 m (1,312 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Winair. In 2021 it handled 15 thousand passengers.

Web page: https://dromopedia.com/airports/tncs

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: SAB / TNCS
- Type: Medium airport
- Operator: Winair
- Serves: Zion's Hill, Saba, Caribbean Netherlands
- Opened: 1963
- Elevation: 18 m / 60 ft
- Coordinates: 17.6453, -63.2205
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 400 m / 1,312 ft
- Passengers: 15,260 (2021)
- Time zone: UTC-4 · America/Kralendijk
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juancho_E._Yrausquin_Airport (28 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1137714
- Weather station: TNCE · WMO 78873
- Ident: TNCS

## Timeline

- 1963: Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport opens.

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12/30 | 400 m / 1,312 ft | 18 m / 59 ft | Concrete |  | yes |

## Passengers per year

| Year | Passengers | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2012 | 29,160 | Wikidata |
| 2013 | 30,920 | Wikidata |
| 2014 | 32,420 | Wikidata |
| 2015 | 30,290 | Wikidata |
| 2016 | 30,480 | Wikidata |
| 2017 | 26,570 | Wikidata |
| 2018 | 28,260 | Wikidata |
| 2019 | 30,670 | Wikidata |
| 2020 | 9,040 | Wikidata |
| 2021 | 15,260 | Wikidata |

## Routes

1 destination in 1 country. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (1)

- [SXM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tncm.md) Princess Juliana International Airport · Sint Maarten · 46 km / 29 mi · Winair

## Airlines

The figure is how many destinations each airline flies from SAB, as the routes above have them. Hubs from Wikidata.

### Passenger (1)

- WM [Winair](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/winair) · 1

## Rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports; = marks a shared place.

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passengers | 15K (2021) | #2,534 of 3,974 | #603 in North America | #3 in BQ |
| Longest runway | 400 m / 1,312 ft | =28,608 of 29,858 | =14,583 in North America | #3 in BQ |
| Elevation | 18 m / 60 ft | =38,677 of 43,403 | =17,555 in North America | #2 in BQ |
| Age | Opened 1963 | =5,069 of 15,079 | =3,512 in North America | #3 in BQ |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =1 in BQ |

## Radio frequencies

| Type | Description | MHz |
| --- | --- | --- |
| INFO | Saba Information | 118.250 |

## Nearby airports

- [EUX](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tnce.md) F. D. Roosevelt Airport · 30 km / 19 mi
- [SXM](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tncm.md) Princess Juliana International Airport · 46 km / 28 mi
- [SBH](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tffj.md) St. Jean Airport · 49 km / 31 mi
- [SFG](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tffg.md) Grand Case-l'Espérance Airport · 54 km / 33 mi
- [AXA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tqpf.md) Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport · 65 km / 40 mi
- [SKB](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tkpk.md) Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport · 65 km / 40 mi

## In collections

- [Shortest runways with airline service](https://dromopedia.com/collections/shortest-scheduled) #1

## Sources

- [NOAA Aviation Weather Center](https://aviationweather.gov/data/api/): Weather data: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (Public Domain (US Government))
- [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/): Airport data from OurAirports (Public Domain)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org): Structured data from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
- [Wikipedia: “Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juancho_E._Yrausquin_Airport&oldid=1363046476), revision of 7 Jul 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- [timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder): Time zone boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, timezone-boundary-builder (ODbL 1.0)
- Every figure with its source: https://dromopedia.com/airports/tncs/data