# Virgin Gorda Airport (VIJ / TUPW)

**Virgin Gorda Airport** (IATA: VIJ, ICAO: TUPW) is a medium airport in Spanish Town, British Virgin Islands. It has one runway, 945 m (3,100 ft) long, gravel.

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

## At a glance

- IATA / ICAO: VIJ / TUPW
- Type: Medium airport
- Serves: Spanish Town, British Virgin Islands
- Elevation: 3 m / 9 ft
- Coordinates: 18.4466, -64.4279
- Runways: 1
- Longest runway: 945 m / 3,100 ft
- Time zone: UTC-4 · America/Tortola
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Gorda_Airport (9 languages)
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7933920
- Weather station: TUPJ · WMO 78550
- Ident: TUPW

## Runways

| Ident | Length | Width | Surface | True headings | Lighted |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 03/21 | 945 m / 3,100 ft | 30 m / 98 ft | Gravel |  |  |

## Routes

3 destinations in 3 countries. From the airport's Wikipedia article.

### Year-round (3)

- [EIS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tupj.md) Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport · British Virgin Islands · 12 km / 7.5 mi · Trans Anguilla Airways
- [AXA](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tqpf.md) Clayton J. Lloyd International Airport · Anguilla · 148 km / 92 mi · Trans Anguilla Airways
- [SJU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tjsj.md) Luis Munoz Marin International Airport · Puerto Rico · 166 km / 103 mi · Charter Flights Caribbean, Cape Air

### Seasonal (1)

- [SJU](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tjsj.md) Luis Munoz Marin International Airport · Puerto Rico · 166 km / 103 mi · Tradewind Aviation

## Airlines

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

### Passenger (4)

- [Trans Anguilla Airways](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/trans-anguilla-airways) · 2
- 9K [Cape Air](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/cape-air) · 1
- Charter Flights Caribbean · 1
- TJ [Tradewind Aviation](https://dromopedia.com/airlines/tradewind-aviation) · 1 · seasonal

## Rankings

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

| Measure | Value | World | Region | Country |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Longest runway | 945 m / 3,100 ft | =15,399 of 29,858 | =6,170 in North America | #2 in VG |
| Elevation | 3 m / 9 ft | =42,649 of 43,403 | =19,169 in North America | =2 in VG |
| Runways | 1 | =4,364 of 29,978 | =2,583 in North America | =1 in VG |

## Nearby airports

- [EIS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tupj.md) Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport · 12 km / 7.5 mi
- [STT](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tist.md) Cyril E. King Airport · 59 km / 37 mi
- [STX](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tisx.md) Henry E. Rohlsen Airport · 92 km / 57 mi
- [CPX](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tjcp.md) Benjamin Rivera Noriega Airport · 94 km / 58 mi
- [VQS](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tjvq.md) Antonio Rivera Rodriguez Airport · 118 km / 73 mi
- [NRR](https://dromopedia.com/airports/tjrv.md) José Aponte de la Torre Airport · 130 km / 81 mi

## 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: “Virgin Gorda Airport”](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Gorda_Airport&oldid=1363086307), 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/tupw/data