João Paulo II Airport

João Paulo II Airport (PDL/LPPD) is in Ponta Delgada, PT, 79 m above sea level. It has 1 runway and the longest is 2,497 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
PDL · LPPD
City
Ponta Delgada
Country
PT
Coordinates
37.7412, -25.6979
Elevation
79 m · 259 ft
Time zone
Atlantic/Azores
Local time now
14:30
Airspace
Santa Maria
Departures observed
22 · 3 arrivals
Most seen destinations
LIS, MAD, FRA

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (10)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
06:49SAT101
10:10SAT3424DH8B · CS-TRB
12:38SAT432DH8D · 9H-LWA
12:50SAT103DH8B · CS-TRC
15:19SAT446DH8D · 9H-LWA
18:01SAT105DH8B · CS-TRC
19:59SAT1109DH8B · CS-TRC
20:11SAT107DH8D · 9H-LWA
20:41SAT1438DH8B · CS-TRB
22:03SAT490DH8D · CS-TRF

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (1)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
12/302,497 m · 8,192 ftasphalt112° · 292°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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And this on board

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