Eugenio Maria DE Hostos Airport
MAZ · TJMZ · Mayaguez, Puerto Rico · --Puerto Rico County · map
Eugenio Maria DE Hostos Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles north of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, 29 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 4,998 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA MAZ · ICAO TJMZ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 29 feet above sea level
- Pattern altitude
- 800 feet above the airport
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm
- 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
- 10W
- In the FAA's files since
- May 1947
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 4,998 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 299 ft, 4,699 ft available for landing, tree 60 ft high 780 ft from the end
- Runway 27: PAPI, four lights on the left, 4,699 ft available for landing, trees 45 ft high 1,150 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 122.8 | |
| El Yunque Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 118.75 |
Wind map live wind over the area, from Windy.com
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Aircraft registered in Mayaguez from the FAA register
20 aircraft are registered to owners in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico: 15 piston singles, 4 piston twins, 1 business jet. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Companies and organisations in town with two or more aircraft:
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Puerto Rico.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 8 since 1982, 3 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
- Activate runway 09/27 medium-intensity runway lightss and PAPI runway 27 - the common traffic frequency. PAPI runway 9 oper contiunous.
- Fee for all aircraft.
- 20 feet trees, 0-199 feet dstc, 240 R.
- Runway end identifier lights out of service indefinitely.
- Obstruction clnc slp 18:1 to dthr.
- 47 feet marked/lighted power lines, 1800 feet dstc, 410 feet L/R,, 34:1.
- Birds on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Ultralight act.
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.