Santiago_Vila_Airport Knowpia

Santiago Vila Airport

*Aeropuerto Santiago Vila*
Santiago Vila Airport; Aeropuerto Santiago Vila
	IATA: GIR; ICAO: SKGI;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Girardot, Colombia
Location	Flandes, Colombia
Elevation AMSL	902 ft / 275 m
Coordinates	4°16′35″N 74°47′46″W / 4.27639°N 74.79611°W
Map
	GIR Location of the airport in Colombia
Runways
Statistics (2009)
Passenger movements
Passenger movements	823
Cargo movement (T)	28
Aircraft operations	30,689
	Sources: Aerocivil, WAD GCM Google Maps

Santiago Vila Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Santiago Vila) (IATA: GIR, ICAO: SKGI) is an airport serving Girardot, a city in the Cundinamarca Department of Colombia. The airport is 3.1 kilometres (2 mi) south of Girardot, across the Magdalena River by the town of Flandes in the Tolima Department.

The Girardot VOR-DME (Ident: GIR) is 6.5 nautical miles (12.0 km) southwest of the airport.^[4]

Accidents and incidents edit

On 12 December 1982, Douglas C-47A HK-2580 of Transportes Aéreas Latinamericas crashed at Santiago Vila Airport while on a training flight destined to land at Mariquita Airport. One of the four people on board was killed.^[5]