Matupá Airport
airport in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Orlando Villas-Bôas Regional Airport (IATA: MBK, ICAO: SWXM) is the airport serving Matupá, Brazil. The airport is named after Orlando Villas-Bôas, the oldest of the Villas-Bôas brothers, Brazilian activists who in 1961 succeeded in getting the entire upper Xingu legally protected.
Airlines and destinations
No scheduled flights operate at this airport.
Accidents and incidents
23 July 2024: a private Learjet 35, registration PP-ERR crashed in a eucalyptus forest after take-off; the aircraft broke up and burst into flames. Both occupants were killed. The accident occurred during a go-around following a local flight.
Access
The airport is located 4 km (2 mi) from downtown Matupá.
See also
List of airports in Brazil
References
External links
"Airport information for SWXM". DAFIF. October 2006 – via Great Circle Mapper.
"Current weather for SWXM".
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Matupá Airport” as airport in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6791986. Authority coordinates are -10.170, -54.953. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 2024 and 2006.
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