DR Hermenegildo Ortiz Quinones Airport
X63 · Humacao, Puerto Rico · --Puerto Rico County · map
DR Hermenegildo Ortiz Quinones Airport is a public-use airport, 1 mile southeast of Humacao, Puerto Rico, 35 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 10/28, is 2,457 feet of asphalt. It has about 19 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 2,970 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA X63
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Elevation
- 35 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- Monday to Friday, 7:30 am to 4:00 pm
- Lights
- runway lights sunset to sunrise; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/28 | 2,457 × 60 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 10: tree 45 ft high 530 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.8 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 2,970, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Humacao from the FAA register
5 aircraft are registered to owners in Humacao, Puerto Rico: 4 piston singles, 1 turboprop. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Puerto Rico.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 2 since 1982, 1 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.
- Loose stones and gravel on runway and txy.
- Ultralight operations on airport.
- Bird activity on and in the vicinity of airport.
- Rising terrain in the vicinity of airport.
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.