Corn Island Airport

Corn Island International Airport
IATA: RNI ICAO: MNCI
Summary
Airport type	Military/Public
Owner	Republic of Nicaragua
Operator	EAAI
Serves	Great Corn Island
Location	Great Corn Island
Focus city for	La Costeña
Elevation AMSL	18 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	12°10′17″N 83°03′38″W
Map
RNI Location in Nicaragua
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03/21 1,900 6,234 Asphalt
Source: GCM Google Maps

An Learjet 45 of Bank of Utah Trustee and an ATR 42-320 of La Costeña Airlines at Corn Island Airport

Corn Island International Airport (IATA: RNI, ICAO: MNCI) is a civil-military public International Airport that serves Great Corn Island in the South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region of Nicaragua and located in the island's downtown area known locally as Brig Bay, The airport is managed by the state-run Administrative Company of International Airports, more commonly known as the EAAI given its Spanish name, the Empresa Administradora de Aeropuertos Internacionales.

The Bluefields NDB (ident: CIS) is located at the airport.

The runway at the airport is 6,234 ft (1,900 m) long, and is at an elevation of 18 ft (5.5 m) above sea level.

Expansion

An expansion programme was underway by 2011, and by 2013 it was completed with the expansion of the runway from 4,750 feet (1,450 m) to 6,234 feet (1,900 m), and then the old runway was refurbished. Lights were going to be added to the runway, but as of 2023 there still has been no further information about the project.

The Terminal was also refurbished and modernized with new infrastructure upgrades, x-ray machines, two immigration offices, two cafeterias and a new parking lot.

The runway was extended so that medium-sized jet aircraft can land there such as the Embraer E-Jet, the Gulfstream G and the Bombardier Challenger. With a range of 2,150 nautical miles (3,980 km; 2,470 mi) and a minimum takeoff run of 1,644 metres (5,394 ft), the Embraer E-170 could, in theory, reach Corn Island Airport from airports throughout the East Coast of the United States as well as from the Caribbean and the northern mainland of South America. However, no further facilities to handle such a plane exist at the airport. Furthermore, the website of the Nicaraguan aviation authority informing about the airport only lists smaller regional airliners such as the ATR-72 as being capable of serving the airport despite already mentioning the current (lengthened) runway dimensions.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
La Costeña	Managua, Bluefields

Gallery

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  Terminal building
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  Runway (looking south west)
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  Map of domestic routes
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  When safe, pedestrians can cross the runway by foot. Access is by unlocked gate

See also

• Nicaragua portal
• Aviation portal
• List of airports in Nicaragua
• Transport in Nicaragua

External links

• OpenStreetMap - Corn Island
• Accident history for RNI at Aviation Safety Network