Operationalconfidence medium

Santa Cruz Air Base

Photo of the airport: Rcandre, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Santa Cruz Air Base is a remote tower: cameras and sensors at the airport feed controllers who work somewhere else. Frequentis and DECEA installed the first remote tower in South America at the Santa Cruz air base in October 2019.

Caveat. Ongoing operation since 2019 not re-verified.

What the sources say

Frequentis and DECEA installed the first remote tower in South America at the Santa Cruz air base in October 2019.https://canso.org/?p=11248

Timeline

18 Oct 2019
smartVISION system installed

Connections

Lines join each airport to the centre that controls it. Basemap: OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps.

Frequentis DECEA

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At a glance

ICAO: SBSC
Country: Brazil
Type: Remote tower
Vendor: Frequentis
Provider: DECEA
Status: Operational
Position: -22.932, -43.719

Sources

1 public source: canso.org.

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