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General Cipriano Castro International Airport (formerly Juan Vicente Gómez International Airport) SVZ / SVSA

San Antonio del Táchira, Táchira · Venezuela · BAER Aeropuertos (Bolivariana de Aeropuertos, Venezuelan state airport operator)
Limited hoursJet A-1
ICAO / IATASVSA / SVZ
OperatorBAER Aeropuertos (Bolivariana de Aeropuertos, Venezuelan state airport operator)
Coordinates7.8408°N, 72.4397°W
Elevation1,312 ft · 400 m
Time zoneVET (UTC-4, no DST)
Passengers / yr
CustomsNo
Border controlNo
SchengenNo
FuelJet A-1
Bonded
AIP referenceSVSA — AIP Venezuela / INAC
Operating hoursMon-Sun 06:00-18:00 local (12hr daylight operation); extended/night hours require prior request (PPR) to airport administration; not H24, no routine night operations.
TerminalsSingle small regional passenger terminal, no jet bridges; apron-based boarding with very limited gate/stand capacity.
Runways (1)
  • 17/35 · 1,870 m / 6,135 ft · 40 m wide · Asphalt
Border-zone airport ~6km from Cúcuta, Colombia, officially renamed from Juan Vicente Gómez to General Cipriano Castro International Airport on 28 September 2023 (Wikipedia/es). Despite its historical international designation and border-adjacent customs post, current scheduled service (Conviasa, Estelar, Rutaca, Turpial Airlines) is domestic-only — to Caracas, Valencia, Barquisimeto and Porlamar per live flight-tracking data — with no confirmed active international flights, consistent with Venezuela's post-2014 sanctions-era aviation contraction; no official recent passenger-total statistics were found publicly published for this facility.

Services

Available On request / PPR Seasonal / ageing Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling Unconfirmed
INAC (Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil)
BAER's own published airport list (already verified elsewhere in this dataset for the SNV and TUV records) does not include San Antonio del Táchira/SVZ among its operated stations, so the draft's attribution to BAER is a group-level claim transferred from a different station and has been dropped; this dataset's pre-existing SVZ operator field also says BAER, but that appears to inherit the same unverified assumption already corrected for TUV. SVZ is treated here as an INAC-administered field, matching the confirmed pattern for small non-BAER-list Venezuelan aerodromes; INAC/airport staff would nominally provide ramp access and basic turnaround support for the limited current scheduled service (Conviasa, Estelar, Rutaca, Turpial per current route listings), but no source names a specific ground-handling company or confirms who performs it, so status is unconfirmed.
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Unconfirmed
Verified 4 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Aircraft fuel Unconfirmed
INAC (Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil)
Wikipedia's current article states "suministro de combustible de aviación" (aviation fuel supply) is available, though an older (2015) OurAirports field report claimed "no fuel" — the two conflict and neither is sourced well enough to resolve definitively. Venezuela's aviation fuel supply is nominally a PDVSA state monopoly, but naming PDVSA here without a station-specific citation would be an unconfirmed group-level extrapolation (identical reasoning already applied when this dataset fact-checked TUV), so fuel is instead recorded against the confirmed field authority, INAC, as unconfirmed rather than naming an unverified supplier.
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Unconfirmed
Verified 4 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
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 Unconfirmed
Guardia Nacional Bolivariana (GNB)
GNB airport-policing presence is a standard, independently-confirmed feature at other Venezuelan international/border-zone airports already in this dataset (e.g. La Chinita, Barcelona); SVZ is itself a border-zone field about 6km from Cúcuta, Colombia with an active customs post ("aduana" per Wikipedia), making GNB presence likely by the same national pattern, but no SVZ-specific source names GNB directly, so attribution is unconfirmed at the station level. The draft's original attribution of security to BAER is dropped along with its ground-handling claim — BAER's own published station list excludes SVZ.
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Unconfirmed
Verified 4 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Passenger & crew transport Not listed
Flight support Available
INAC (Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil)
INAC is Venezuela's national civil aviation authority and the confirmed publisher of this field's own AIP/AIS record ("SVSA — AIP Venezuela / INAC", already present in this dataset's SVZ airport record) — a station-specific citation, not a generic group-level claim; INAC nationally manages air navigation and aeronautical-information services for the fields it directly administers.
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Available
Verified 4 weeks ago · unconfirmed source
Hotel & travel Not listed