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Alcides Fernández Airport (SKAD/ACD) is a small public airport serving the coastal town of Acandí in Colombia's Chocó Department, close to the border with Panama. It offers a single hard-surfaced runway and is currently served by scheduled flights to Medellín, making it a modest but useful VFR destination on the Caribbean coast.
Alcides Fernández Airport is a small commercial aerodrome on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, serving the town of Acandí in the Chocó Department. It is operated by Aerocivil, the Colombian civil aviation authority, and is regarded locally as an important link between Acandí and the rest of the country as well as neighbouring Panama.
The airfield lies on the Caribbean coast of Chocó Department, in the far northwest of Colombia near the border with Panama; it is listed among the airports associated with Colombia-Panama border crossings. No further detail on airspace classification or surrounding controlled airspace is available.
The airport has a single physical runway, 17/35, with a hard surface and a length of 3,867 feet. There is no ILS or other instrument approach available.
No communication frequencies are published for the field, and it has no instrument landing system. Pilots should expect to operate on a self-announce or advisory basis unless local information indicates otherwise.
No published joining or circuit procedures, circuit heights, or noise abatement restrictions are available for this airfield.
No published visual reference points are available for this airfield.
The airport was closed for a period in the early 2000s as tourism to Acandí declined. Acandí's mayor funded enlargement of the runway and improved terminal facilities, and the Colombian government contributed further funds as part of Plan Colombia to support the renovation. In 2003, Colombian transportation minister Andrés Uriel Gallego and Civil Aeronautics minister Juan Carlos Vélez reopened the airport to public flights following the completion of this work. Before its closure, the airport had been served by Aerolínea de Antioquia and West Caribbean Airways, both operating 19-seat aircraft.
The airport currently sees scheduled service from SATENA, which operates flights to Medellín-Olaya Herrera. As a small regional airfield, facilities are modest, and pilots planning a visit should confirm whether prior permission is required.
