Aeropuerto Internacional de Santa Elena de Uairén SNV / SVSE

Santa Elena de Uairén, Bolívar · Venezuela · INAC (Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil) — state-operated

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ICAO / IATASVSE / SNV

OperatorINAC (Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil) — state-operated

Coordinates4.5551°N, 61.1438°W

Elevation2,939 ft · 896 m

Time zoneVET (UTC-4, no DST)

Passengers / yr12,180

CustomsNo

Border controlNo

SchengenNo

Fuel—

Bonded—

AIP referenceSVSE — AIP Venezuela / INAC

Operating hoursDaylight/VFR operations only — no runway lighting confirmed for night ops; no published curfew; informal PPR/advance coordination recommended given limited staffing and services at this remote border strip.

TerminalsSingle small terminal building with basic passenger services (counter check-in, cafeteria/kiosk, communications); no jet bridges or multi-gate infrastructure.

Runways (1)

11/29 · 1,650 m / 5,413 ft · 30 m wide · Asphalt

Airport contact

www.inac.gob.ve

Despite its 'Internacional' name (referencing its historical role as a land border crossing point to Pacaraima, Brazil, ~6 km away), SNV currently operates only domestic Conviasa flights to Canaima and Ciudad Guayana (Manuel Carlos Piar); no scheduled international air service, customs, or immigration facilities are confirmed operational as of the most recent available reporting, consistent with the broader contraction of Venezuela's regional air network under sanctions and economic crisis. No dedicated airport website, published phone number, or recent (post-2020) passenger statistics could be verified from public sources — figures and contact fields above should be treated as best-available estimates pending direct confirmation from INAC or Conviasa.

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Available On request / PPR Seasonal / ageing Unconfirmed / not listed

Ground handling Unconfirmed

Bolivariana de Aeropuertos (BAER) / SEA (Servicios Especializados Aeroportuarios)

BAER (Venezuela's state airport holding company) has confirmed SNV-specific involvement, not just a group-level claim: BAER's president personally visited Santa Elena de Uairén alongside Venezuela's Deputy Minister of Air Transport in May 2023 to supervise runway and control-tower rehabilitation works (primicia.com.ve, "Autoridades inspeccionan aeropuertos de Ciudad Bolívar y Santa Elena", 17-May-2023). The originally-cited baer.gob.ve press release describing roofing/lighting/facade works and runway 11/29 marking at SNV could not be located; baer.gob.ve's own airport list (checked 2026-08-17) does not include SNV among its named stations (it lists Santiago Mariño, José Antonio Anzoátegui, La Chinita, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, Libertador/Maracay, Carabobo and Barcelona), so that specific claim is dropped. SEA, BAER's ground-handling subsidiary, advertises full ground-support equipment and RAV-111-certified personnel for cargo/passenger/GA handling at baer.gob.ve/sea (page confirmed live) but names no stations; SEA's staffing at SNV specifically remains unconfirmed.

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Aircraft fuel Not listed

De-icing Not listed

Part-145 line maintenance Not listed

Part-145 base maintenance Not listed

Component shops & overhaul Not listed

Flight catering Not listed

Aircraft cleaning Not listed

Ground support equipment Not listed

Cargo handling Not listed

Aviation security Available

Guardia Nacional Bolivariana (GNB)

GNB is Venezuela's standing aviation/border security force and is documented with actual physical control of this specific airport, not merely a group-level inference: on 27-Feb-2019 GNB personnel retook the control point at Aeropuerto Internacional de Santa Elena de Uairén amid regional border unrest, described by a Primero Justicia party official as occurring "con total normalidad" without confrontation (primicia.com.ve, "GNB retoma el aeropuerto de Santa Elena", 27-Feb-2019); this followed several days of border-crisis unrest in the town also covered nationally (e.g. El País, 25-Feb-2019, "Santa Elena de Uairén, el pueblo en la frontera con Brasil en el epicentro de la represión de Maduro"). GNB remains the standing airport-security/access-control authority at Venezuelan civil airports nationwide, consistent with continuing presence at this border field. The "Comando Aéreo" sub-unit label is dropped from the company name - that GNB command is documented handling the Guard's own aircraft for logistics/firefighting support, not general airport security screening, so tying airport security specifically to it was not supported.

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Passenger & crew transport Not listed

Flight support Unconfirmed

Bolivariana de Aeropuertos (BAER) / SEA (Servicios Especializados Aeroportuarios)

SEA (BAER's specialized-services subsidiary; confirmed real at baer.gob.ve/sea) advertises FBO-type functions network-wide - flight dispatch assistance, aircraft parking/marshalling, crew and passenger support, PRM/wheelchair assistance - contactable via ••• (confirmed live contact address). The page names no specific stations, so staffing at SNV itself is not independently confirmed; unconfirmed at station level.

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Hotel & travel Not listed