Comandante Gustavo Kraemer International Airport is the airport serving
Bagé
Bagé () is a city located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In 2020, its population was 121,335 in a total area of 4,096 km2. It was the seventeenth largest city in the state according to the 2011 census. The city was founded in 1 ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
. It is named after Captain Gustavo Kraemer, founder and pilot of the airline
SAVAG, killed on an air-crash in 1950.
It is operated by
CCR.
History
The airport opened on July 5, 1946. On February 8, 1952 the airport was renamed after Gustavo Kraemer, who on June 20, 1950 died on an air-crash while piloting an aircraft of
SAVAG, an airline of which he was also president.
Previously operated by
Infraero, on April 7, 2021
CCR won a 30-year concession to operate the airport.
Airlines and destinations
Statistics
Accidents and incidents
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Varig
VARIG (acronym for Viação Aérea RIo-Grandense, ''Rio Grandean Airways'') was the first airline founded in Brazil, in 1927. From 1965 until 1990, it was Brazil's leading airline, and virtually its only international one. In 2005, Varig went ...
Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando registration PP-VCF operating a flight from Bagé to
Porto Alegre
Porto Alegre (, , Brazilian ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. Its population of 1,488,252 inhabitants (2020) makes it the twelfth most populous city in the country and the center of Brazil's fif ...
crashed during take-off from Bagé following a fire developed in the left main gear wheel well and consequent technical difficulties. All 40 passenger and crew died.
Access
The airport is located from downtown Bagé.
See also
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List of airports in Brazil
This is a list of airports in Brazil, sorted by location.
The National Civil Aviation Agency of Brazil lists on March 10, 2022, 491 public and 2,677 private aerodromes in Brazil.
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Airports in Rio Grande do Sul
Airports established in 1946