German Olano Airport guide

German Olano Airport (SKPC) is the air gateway for Puerto Carreño, the capital of Vichada department in eastern Colombia. The town sits on the Orinoco River at the Venezuelan border, and the airfield lies about 1.5 kilometres west of the river at an elevation of 54 metres. Roads in this part of the Llanos are few and often impassable in the wet season, so the airport carries much of the region's passenger and freight traffic.

The airport has a single asphalt runway, 07/25, which is 1,800 metres long. SATENA, the state-owned regional carrier, links it with Bogota and Villavicencio. The Colombian civil aviation authority, Aerocivil, opened the current passenger terminal on 15 October 1989. A 2019 government announcement described a replacement building of almost 2,000 square metres, against roughly 320 square metres for the old one.

The airfield is also used by cargo aircraft. In December 2016 an Aerosucre Boeing 727 freighter failed to become airborne on take-off and crashed beyond the runway.