Drone Rules for Oiapoque Airport
All unauthorized drone flights are strictly prohibited within this airspace to eliminate catastrophic collision risks with military border patrols, federal law enforcement flights, regional air taxis, and vital aeromedical evacuation missions.
The Oiapoque Airport (ICAO: SBOI), located in the municipality of Oiapoque, Amapá, is a highly strategic northern frontier infrastructure asset situated on the international border with French Guiana. Due to its unique geographic position and isolation from major overland networks, this airfield serves as a vital logistics and security hub, accommodating frequent operations by the Brazilian Armed Forces and Federal Police for border surveillance, alongside regional air taxis, government utility flights, and critical aeromedical air ambulance services.
Because incoming and departing aircraft execute low-altitude operations and visual flight rules (VFR) patterns directly over the Oyapock River basin, international transport corridors, and growing urban areas, uncoordinated drone activity within this active zone creates an immediate mid-air collision hazard. An aviation accident in this sensitive frontier area would compromise national security lines and disrupt life-saving emergency transport. Consequently, spontaneous or recreational drone flights within the airfield perimeter, its obstacle limitation surfaces, or its designated security grids are completely prohibited under federal law (Brazilian Penal Code, Art. 261).