Airports / Brazil / SNZ
Santa Cruz Air Force Base
SBSC / SNZRio de Janeiro, BrazilELEV 10 FT
Field elevation
Nearest alternate
Field standing
19 nm
To the nearest alternate
Campo Délio Jardim de Mattos Airport (SBAF) — 4 fields within 50 nm.
Overview
Santa Cruz Air Force Base (SBSC / SNZ) sits in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where it functions as a mid-sized airport. The field lies at an elevation of 10 feet. The field has no airline schedules, which keeps it focused on private and general aviation flying.
SNZ has no resident charter fleet; trips here are typically flown by operators repositioning from surrounding airports. Useful alternates include Campo Délio Jardim de Mattos Airport (SBAF, 19 nm), Jacarepaguá - Roberto Marinho Airport (RRJ, 19 nm), and Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG, 27 nm).
Quotes for flights out of SNZ vary with aircraft type, repositioning, and schedule flexibility. The airport is also known as Santa Cruz AB and Bartolomeu de Gusmão Airport. Use the cost estimator to model a trip from SNZ, or browse verified operators serving the area.
Field capability
ICAO
SBSC
IATA
SNZ
FAA / Local
RJ9003
Elevation
10 ft
Coordinates
22.9324° S · 43.7191° W
Airspace
G · GolfClass G — GolfUncontrolled field — no tower. Pilots self-announce and sequence themselves on the common traffic advisory frequency.Source: FAA NASR class airspace
Size
Medium
Scheduled svc
No
Elevation vs Brazil fields
state range 8–4,138 ft
At 10 ft, SNZ sits lower than 97% of the 138 Brazil fields on the register.
Access & alternates
Closest alternate fields by great-circle distance — every listing links to its own field brief.
- 19nmSBAFCampo Délio Jardim de Mattos AirportRio de Janeiro
- 19nmRRJJacarepaguá - Roberto Marinho AirportRio de Janeiro
- 27nmGIGRio Galeão – Tom Jobim International AirportRio De Janeiro
- 31nmSDUSantos Dumont AirportRio de Janeiro
- 71nmJDFFrancisco de Assis AirportJuiz de Fora
- 83nmGUJEdu Chaves FieldGuaratinguetá
Location
Open the full mapSBSC · Santa Cruz Air Force Base · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil