Information of Faro Airport

• Location & QuickFacts
• Airport Communications
• Runway Information
• Remarks

• by Tomas Milosch
• by Tomas Milosch
• by Tomas Milosch
• by Tomas Milosch

Location & QuickFacts

Airport ICAO Code:	LPFR
Airport IATA Code:	FAO
Airport Type:	A - Civil
Longitude/Latitude:	W 007° 57' 57.28"/N 37° 00' 51.93" -7.965911/37.014425
Elevation:	24 ft / 7.32 m
Location:	Faro, Portugal
Magnetic Variation:	W 3°12.9' (2008-04)
Time Zone:	UTC 0(+1DT)

Airport Communications

Type	Name	Freq 1	Freq 2	Freq 3	Freq 4	Freq 5
Approach Control	APP	119.4 M	376.75 M
Automatic Terminal Information Service	ATIS	124.2 M
Ground Control	GND	118.575 M	376.75 M
Tower	TWR	118.2 M	119.125 M	376.75 M

Runway Information

Runway 10/28

Dimension:	8169 x 148 ft / 2489.9 x 45.1 m
Surface:	Asphalt, asphaltic concrete, tar macadam, or bitumen bound macadam.

	Runway 10	Runway 28
Longitude:	-7.986094 / W 007° 59' 09.94"	-7.958561 / W 007° 57' 30.82"
Latitude:	37.017292 / N 37° 01' 02.25"	37.013381 / N 37° 00' 48.17"
End Elevation:	24.0 ft	18.0 ft
Alignment:	104.0	284.0
Slope:	-0.1	0.1
Touchdown Zone Elev.:	24.0	20.0
Displaced Threshold:	148 ft	148 ft
Lighting System 1:	Centerline Lighting System	Centerline Lighting System
Lighting System 2:	High Intensity Runway Lights	High Intensity Runway Lights
Lighting System 3:	PAPI - Precision Approach Path Indicator	PAPI - Precision Approach Path Indicator

Remarks

Caution - Bird haz.

Fuel - (NC-100LL, A1 - Avbl 0800-2400Z++. OT O/R with surcharge.)

Lighting - PAPI Rwy 10,28 MEHT 69'.

Operating Hours - Opr 0600-2400Z++.

Restricted - 2 hr PPR for all arr and dep acft. Rstd to acft able to maint two-way com with Faro Twr. Flw-me cars avbl O/R. Trng flt with consecutive touch and go are only allowed PPR fr arpt OPS 72 hr before operation. Transponder required.