Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport
Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport
Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de Río Gallegos "Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández", IATA: RGL, ICAO: SAWG) is located 2 kilometres (1 mi) west of Río Gallegos, a city in the Santa Cruz Province of Argentina. The airport covers an area of 1,150 hectares (2,800 acres) and is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000. The airport was constructed in 1964, and the paved runway was inaugurated in 1972 with a Caravelle flight of Aerolíneas Argentinas. The runway is the longest in Argentina. During the late 1980s, the airport was a scheduled stop on a polar route passenger flight from Buenos Aires to Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia operated by Aerolineas Argentinas with Boeing 747-200 wide body jetliners.
Location
51.609°S, 69.309°O · 19 m s. n. m. (61 ft)
General data
Runways · 1
Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.
Radio frequencies · 3
Approach
Flight information
Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.
Airlines operating here · 3
Other airlines with direct routes
Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).
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APA
Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport (RGL). Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RGL
MLA
“Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport (RGL).” Vuelopedia, Fundación Poderia, 15 Oct. 2026, vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RGL. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.
Chicago
Vuelopedia. “Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport (RGL).” Fundación Poderia. Last modified October 15, 2026. https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RGL.
Harvard
Vuelopedia (2026) Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport (RGL). Available at: https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RGL (Accessed: 23 October 2026).
BibTeX
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author = {{Vuelopedia}},
title = {{Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport (RGL)}},
publisher = {Fundación Poderia},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-10-15},
url = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RGL},
howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/RGL}},
urldate = {2026-10-23},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-23}
}Wikipedia
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