Punta Islita Airport


Islita Airport is an airport that serves the communities of Punta Islita in the Nandayure Canton of Costa Rica. The airport is at the village of Corozalito, east of Punta Islita. It is the main access to a series of secluded beaches in southern Nicoya Peninsula.
The runway is in a coastal valley leading into mountainous terrain, and has a rise from south to north. There is rising terrain in all quadrants except the south, which is the Pacific Ocean shore. The Liberia VOR-DME is located north-northwest of the airport.
The airport is owned by a private administrator and currently has four weekly scheduled flights from San José and Nosara.
On December 31, 2017, a plane operated by Nature Air crashed shortly after takeoff from Punta Islita.

Airlines and destinations

There are currently no scheduled operations at the airport.

Charter services

These data show number of passengers movements into the airport, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of Costa Rica's Statistical Yearbooks.