the airport also sends executive jets and aircrafts that fly to smaller ports - it is located at praça senador salgado filho, in castelo.

the airport is named after  alberto santos-dumont, a  brazilian national hero who is considered the father of aviation, also credited by aéro club de france and the fédération aéronautique internationale - fai for building a heavier-than-air aircraft and making the first powered heavier-than-air flight in europe on october 23rd, 1906.

heir of a wealthy family of coffee producers, santos-dumont was a brazilian aviation pioneer, and dedicated himself to aeronautical study and experimentation in paris, france, where he spent most of his adult life.