Salt Cay Airport guide

Henry Leon Wilson Airport serves Salt Cay, a small island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is also known as Salt Cay Airport and carries the ICAO code MBSY. The island has no road link to the rest of the territory, so the airstrip is the main way in by air.

The airport was closed for more than a year for repairs and upgrades and reopened on 30 October 2020. It was then renamed after Henry Leon Wilson, a Salt Cay parliamentarian who was the youngest person ever elected to Parliament in the Turks and Caicos. The single paved runway, 08/26, is 2,677 feet long and 80 feet wide, at an elevation of 5 feet.

Scheduled flights run a few times a week from Providenciales and Grand Turk, usually on small twin-engine turboprops, so baggage space can be limited. Private aircraft also use the field. Facilities are basic: a small terminal building, a cafe serving drinks and snacks that opens when a scheduled flight is operating, free parking, and a fire truck and crew on standby during flight times. There are no immigration or customs staff on site. Car rental is not available; visitors arrange a golf cart, a bicycle or a lift with their accommodation.