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Coronel Adalberto Mendes da Silva Airport, now more commonly known as Regional West Airport, serves the city of Cascavel in Parana, Brazil, and handles scheduled airline traffic on a single asphalt runway. For a VFR pilot it is a straightforward regional field, notable chiefly for its steady growth from a modest municipal strip into a busy commercial gateway for western Parana.
This is the airport serving Cascavel, a city in the west of Parana state, Brazil. Long known as Coronel Adalberto Mendes da Silva Airport, it was renamed Regional West Airport in 2023. It is operated by Transitar, the municipal transport authority linked to the City of Cascavel, and today supports scheduled airline services alongside general aviation movements, making it a useful reference point for pilots operating in this part of southern Brazil.
The airport lies about 8 km (5 miles) southwest of downtown Cascavel, in Parana state, Brazil.
The field has a single physical runway, 15/33, measuring 5,764 ft with a hard (asphalt) surface. There is no ILS installed. Field elevation is 2,467 ft.
An AFIS (Aerodrome Flight Information Service) is provided on 131.85 MHz. No ILS is available at the field.
The airport was commissioned on 12 November 1977. Its runway was substantially upgraded in stages: originally 1,615 m by 30 m, it was expanded to 1,780 m by 45 m, with the enlarged runway entering service on 29 January 2013 to accommodate steadily increasing traffic. A new passenger terminal covering over 6,000 square metres opened in 2020. Further improvements have included the planned installation of a precision approach path indicator and a new, upgraded fire station intended to raise the airport's safety category. At the start of 2023 the airport's official name was changed from Coronel Adalberto Mendes da Silva Airport to Regional West Airport, reflecting its growing role as a regional hub for western Parana.
The airport is operated by Transitar, the semi-independent transport authority connected to the Municipality of Cascavel. It currently receives scheduled airline services, with carriers including Azul Brazilian Airlines, Gol Linhas Aereas and LATAM Brasil operating flights to destinations such as Campinas, Curitiba and Sao Paulo-Guarulhos, giving the field a level of commercial traffic that VFR pilots should be aware of when planning a visit.