Comandante Gustavo Kraemer Airport
international airport serving Bage, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Comandante Gustavo Kraemer International Airport (IATA: BGX, ICAO: SBBG) is the airport serving Bagé, Brazil. Since February 8, 1952, it is named after Captain Gustavo Ernesto de Carvalho Kraemer (1911–1950), founder and pilot of the airline SAVAG, killed on an air-crash in 1950.
It is operated by ASUR.
History
The airport opened on July 5, 1946. On February 8, 1952, the airport was renamed after Gustavo Kraemer, who on June 20, 1950, died on an air-crash while piloting an aircraft of SAVAG, an airline of which he was also president.
Previously operated by Infraero, on April 7, 2021 CCR won a 30-year concession to operate the airport. On April 26, 2025 CCR was rebranded as Motiva.
On November 18, 2025 the entire airports portfolio of Motiva was sold to the Mexican airport operator ASUR. Motiva will cease to operate airports. The transaction was completed on August 31, 2026.
Airlines and destinations
No scheduled flights operate at this airport.
Accidents and incidents
7 April 1957: a Varig Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando registration PP-VCF operating a flight from Bagé to Porto Alegre crashed during take-off from Bagé following a fire developed in the left main gear wheel well and consequent technical difficulties.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Comandante Gustavo Kraemer Airport” as international airport serving Bage, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1658147. Authority coordinates are -31.391, -54.110. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952, 1911, 1950 and 1946.
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