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Bahia - Jorge Amado Airport (SBIL) serves the coastal city of Ilhéus in the Brazilian state of Bahia, close to sea level on the country's northeastern shoulder. It is a modest but active field with a single hard-surfaced runway and radar-served approach control, making it a straightforward VFR or IFR destination for pilots operating along this stretch of coast.
Bahia - Jorge Amado Airport, identified by the ICAO code SBIL and IATA code IOS, lies at Ilhéus on the Atlantic coast of Bahia state in northeastern Brazil. It is classed as a medium airport with scheduled airline service, and for a simulator pilot it offers a compact single-runway operation set against a low-lying coastal landscape.
The airfield sits at coordinates 14.815 degrees south, 39.0333 degrees west, at an elevation of 10 feet above mean sea level, placing it right at the edge of the coastal plain around Ilhéus.
The airport has a single physical runway, 11/29, of hard construction and equipped with lighting. Landing distance available is 5352 feet on runway 11 and 4807 feet on runway 29, the difference in published lengths indicating a displaced threshold or declared distance variation between the two directions. There is no ILS installed.
Approach control can be contacted on 120.1 MHz.
Bahia - Jorge Amado Airport is classified as a medium airport that continues to handle scheduled airline traffic, alongside general aviation movements, making it a live and moderately busy field for a visiting simulator pilot to plan into.