Cachimbo Airport

Cachimbo Airport Aeroporto de Cachimbo
IATA: none ICAO: SBCC
Summary
Airport type	Military: Airport
Operator	Brazilian Air Force
Serves	Serra do Cachimbo
Built	1950
In use	1954 - present
Elevation AMSL	537 m / 1,762 ft
Coordinates	09°20′02″S 054°57′55″W / 9.33389°S 54.96528°W / -9.33389; -54.96528Coordinates: 09°20′02″S 054°57′55″W / 9.33389°S 54.96528°W / -9.33389; -54.96528
Website	http://www.cpbv.aer.mil.br/
Map
SBCC Location in Brazil
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 2,602 8,537 Asphalt
Sources: Military Base Website,Brazilian Air Force

Cachimbo Airport (ICAO: SBCC) is the military airport serving Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso, a large Testing and Training complex of the Brazilian Armed Forces located in Serra do Cachimbo (English: Smoking pipe Mountains), in the southern part of the state of Pará, Brazil.

It is operated by the Brazilian Air Force.

The Testing and Training Complex of Campo de Provas Brigadeiro Velloso has an area of 21,588 km² and a perimeter of 653 km. It is within the limits of four municipalities: Altamira, Itaituba, Jacareacanga and Novo Progresso, in an area comparable in size to the Brazilian state of Sergipe.

The airport and the complex have their origins in an airfield opened on September 3, 1950. With the end of World War II, the Brazilian government saw the need for a strategic support facility to the operation of aircraft flying between the Northern Region (location of the Amazon Rainforest) and the Southeast Region of Brazil (the locations of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo), flying on a straight route. Before the construction of the airfield, the link was only possible to be operated with safety following the longer coastline route. The airfield was officially commissioned on January 20, 1954.