Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorWinair
ServesSaba
LocationSaba, Caribbean Netherlands
Elevation AMSL60 ft / 18 m
Coordinates17°38′44″N 063°13′14″W / 17.64556°N 63.22056°W / 17.64556; -63.22056
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TNCS is located in Netherlands Antilles
TNCS
TNCS
Location in the Caribbean Netherlands
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Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
12/30 400 1,312 Paved
Statistics (2016)
Passenger movements69,896 Increase 18%
Aircraft movements986 Increase 9%

Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport (IATA: SAB, ICAO: TNCS) is an airport on the Dutch Caribbean island of Saba, Netherlands. Its runway is widely acknowledged as the shortest commercial runway in the world, with a length of 400 m (1,312 ft).[1][2]

  1. ^ Chilton, Nicola (2022-07-08). "What it's like to land on the world's shortest commercial runway". CNN. Archived from the original on 2022-07-21. Retrieved 2022-09-03.
  2. ^ Dugdale, Magdalena (2018-12-27). "World's shortest runways at commercial airports". Airport Technology. Archived from the original on 2022-09-07.