Antonio Rivera Rodriguez Airport
VQS · TJVQ · Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico · --Puerto Rico County · map
Antonio Rivera Rodriguez Airport is a public-use airport, 3 miles southwest of Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico, 48 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 09/27, is 4,294 feet of asphalt.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA VQS · ICAO TJVQ
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 48 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- every day, 6:00 am to 6:00 pm
- Lights
- beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- Notes
- landing fee
- On the chart
- Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 13W
- In the FAA's files since
- August 1968
Runway
Drawn to scale from the FAA's runway positions, north up. Not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 | 4,294 × 75 ft | Asphalt, good | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 09: PAPI, four lights on the left, threshold displaced 200 ft, 4,094 ft available for landing, trees 15 ft high 201 ft from the end
- Runway 27: right-hand traffic pattern, 4,094 ft available for landing, road 19 ft high 201 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) · UNICOM | 123.0 | · UNICOM monitored during attnd. Hours. |
| El Yunque Center (remote transmitter) Low/high | 128.65 |
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Aircraft registered in Isla de Vieques from the FAA register
No aircraft on the register list Isla de Vieques, PR as the owner's town.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 7 since 1982, 2 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 operations only.
- Closed to schedule air carrier oper with more than 9 psgr seats and unscheduled air carrier oper with more than 30 psgr seats.
- Landing fee for all aircraft.
- UNICOM monitored during attnd. Hours.
- Ext 5300
- 15 feet. Trees, 0-199 feet. Dstc, 100 feet. L.
- 8 feet. 0-199 feet. Dstc, 145 feet. R, 19 feet road, 199 feet dstc, 220 feet L.
- Runway 09 PAPI beyond 9 degrees R of rcl unusable.
- Approach ratio 17:1 to dthr over 35 feet. Trees, 622 feet. Dstc, 195 feet. R. also 25 feet tree, 492 feet. Dstc, 100 feet R obstruction clnc slope 11:1.
- Rising terrain south.
- Aircraft not visible from opposite runway end.
- Loose stones all surfaces.
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.