Villa Garzon Airport (Cananguchal) VGZ / SKVG
Villagarzon, Putumayo · Colombia · Aerocivil (Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronautica Civil)
20kpax · 2022
Limited hours
ICAO / IATASKVG / VGZ
OperatorAerocivil (Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronautica Civil)
Coordinates0.9788°N, 76.6056°W
Elevation1,248 ft · 380 m
Time zoneCOT (UTC-5, no DST)
Passengers / yr20,008 (2022)
CustomsNo
Border controlNo
SchengenNo
Fuel—
Bonded—
AIP referenceSKVG — AIP Colombia / Aerocivil
Operating hoursDaylight VFR operations only, no published H24 tower; no scheduled night operations. No published curfew beyond standard daylight-only limits; PPR recommended for non-scheduled/charter traffic given minimal ground infrastructure.
TerminalsSingle small domestic terminal building; no jet bridges, apron parking only
Runways (1)
- 16/34 · 1,317 m / 4,320 ft · 12 m wide · Asphalt
Satena provides the only scheduled service, connecting this Putumayo piedmont-Amazon strip to Bogota (and historically Puerto Leguizamo/Cali) under Colombia's subsidized regional-route program; the airport primarily serves Villagarzon and nearby Mocoa in a border-adjacent, narcotics-interdiction-active region with minimal fixed infrastructure.
Services
Available
On request / PPR
Seasonal / ageing
Unconfirmed / not listed
Ground handling
Unconfirmed
SATENA
SATENA is the only scheduled carrier serving Villagarzón/Cananguchal (VGZ) - confirmed live on satena.com (Villagarzón featured as a current destination) and on SATENA's Wikipedia route listing, which shows Villagarzón connected via Bogotá and Puerto Leguízamo (a direct Cali routing claimed in an earlier draft could not be reconfirmed and has been dropped). No independent third-party ground-handling company is documented at this small Aerocivil-administered airstrip. Consistent with practice at other remote Putumayo/Amazon-basin stations, this is treated as self-handled, SATENA, but a station-specific citation confirming SATENA (rather than Aerocivil field staff) performs the physical ramp work was not found - 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
Unconfirmed
SATENA
SATENA advertises an airport-to-airport ("Aeropuerto - Aeropuerto") mail and cargo service across its domestic network (confirmed live on satena.com/es/carga), and SATENA is the only carrier flying into Villagarzón. However the cargo page itself does not name Villagarzón among its example destinations (a specific '~36 national destinations' figure in an earlier draft could not be reconfirmed - Wikipedia gives conflicting network-wide counts of 39 and 54 destinations - and has been dropped), and no VGZ-specific cargo terminal, tonnage, or third-party agent is documented. Recorded as self-handled, SATENA - unconfirmed for this specific station.
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Aviation security
Not listed
Passenger & crew transport
Not listed
Flight support
Unconfirmed
Aerocivil (Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia)
Aerocivil is Colombia's civil aviation authority and sole ANSP; VGZ shows no evidence of a private concessionaire, consistent with the dozens of other small Putumayo/Amazon-basin airstrips Aerocivil runs directly (e.g. neighbouring SVI, PCR, COG in this dataset), so it is presumed to provide the airfield's AIS/MET briefing and administration function. This pass could not independently reconfirm a VGZ-specific document: the airport's own aerocivil.gov.co page returned an error and the 2017 control-tower-maintenance procurement record previously cited could not be re-located, so status is kept unconfirmed rather than available, matching house practice at comparable small Aerocivil-direct-run fields (e.g. PSO, PPN) absent a station-specific citation.
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Hotel & travel
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