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Lajes Airport (Aeroporto das Lajes) Azores: Military airports: Terceira Island: Azores: LPLA TER Lajes Air Base (Base Aérea das Lajes) Madeira: Public airports: Madeira Island Madeira: LPMA FNC Cristiano Ronaldo Madeira Airport(Funchal) (Aeroporto da Madeira){Santa Cruz/Madeira} Porto Santo Island: Madeira: LPPS PXO
Madeira airport as seen in 1990, pre-runway extension. Madeira Airport was officially opened on 7 July 1964, with a single 1,600 m (5,200 ft) runway (06/24). The first flight to land there was a TAP Air Portugal Lockheed Constellation with 80 passengers on board. [11]
Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (IATA: OPO, ICAO: LPPR) or simply Porto Airport (formerly Pedras Rubras Airport) is an international airport near Porto (Oporto), Portugal. It is located 11 km (6.8 mi) northwest of the Clérigos Tower (in the centre of Porto). Its location is split between the municipalities of Maia, Matosinhos and Vila do Conde.
The station is the terminus of line E of the Metro, which provides a direct connection to the centre of the city of Porto. [1] [2] Porto Metro line E, including Aeroporto station, opened on 27 May 2006. Trains run every 15 minutes as far as Trindade, in the centre of the city, with some continuing to Estádio do Dragão. [3] [4]
ANAM – Aeroportos e Navegação Aérea da Madeira, S.A. Created under Portuguese Law Decreto-Lei n.º.453/91 de 11 de Dezembro, this company, which receives exclusively public funds, was established to study, plan, build and utilise the airports in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. ADA – Administração de Aeroportos, Lda.
The island of Porto Santo was the first of the Madeira Islands to obtain an airport. In 1959, [2] its runway was built with an initial length of 2,000 m (6,600 ft). The first aircraft to land at this airport was a TAP Air Portugal Douglas DC-4, on 20 July 1960.
The Via Rápida 1 or VR1 (Fast Road 1 in English) is the first motorway in Madeira. Since April 2017, there is another motorway in the island called VR2. Construction started in 1989 [1] completed in 2005. [2] With 44 km it goes from Ribeira Brava to Porto do Caniçal, providing a fast connection between Funchal and the Madeira International ...
Herz, Norman (2006), Operação Alacrity: os Açores e a Guerra no Atlântico (in Portuguese), Vila do Porto (Azores), Portugal: Município de Vila do Porto, ISBN 978-989-95262-0-4 Oliveira, João Eduardo Franco de, Aeroporto de Santa Maria: 1946-1996 (in Portuguese), Aeroportos e Navegação Aérea, ANA