Benjamin Rivera Noriega Airport
CPX · TJCP · Isla de Culebra, Puerto Rico · --Puerto Rico County · map
Benjamin Rivera Noriega Airport is a public-use airport owned by Puerto Rico Ports Authority, 1 mile north of Isla de Culebra, Puerto Rico, 43 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 13/31, is 2,596 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA CPX · ICAO TJCP
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Puerto Rico Ports Authority
- Elevation
- 43 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, sunrise to sunset
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 11W
- In the FAA's files since
- October 1963
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13/31 | 2,596 × 60 ft | Asphalt, excellent | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 13: hill 480 ft high 2,200 ft from the end
- Runway 31: fence 6 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | · Runway 13/31 MIRL-CTAF. |
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Aircraft registered in Isla de Culebra from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Isla de Culebra, PR as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 6 since 1982, 0 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- VFR weather only. Minimum traffic ptn 1000' above ground level. No night operations. Lnd runway 13 only (except for adverse weather conditions) approach from northwest through bahia flamenco on heading of 172 degrees. Fly through laguna del flamenco until aprox parallel to hiway in pass alter heading to 153 degrees; left turn to final approach runway 13.
- Low altitude maneuvering required for final alignment to runway. Variable degreess of turbulence may be expected.
- Runway 13/31 MIRL-CTAF.
- Ext 5300
- 6 feet fence, 0-200 feet dstc, 90-150 feet R/L; 15 road, 0-200 feet dstc, 100-150 feet R/L.
- Aircraft departing airport northbound be alert for traffic descending on final for charlotte amalie state thomas, cyril east king (stt).
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Unatndd sunset to sunrise. Emergencies only. Operations between sunset to sunrise will be an own risk.
- Landing fee for all aircraft.
- 600 feet above ground level ant 1/2 mile east of airport.
- Runway 13, 480 feet hill, 1/2 mile from runway end.
- Rapidly rising terrain northwest.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.