Drone Rules for Aripuanã Airport
Critical No-Fly Zone covering Aripuanã Airport (SWRP). All unauthorized drone flights are strictly prohibited within this airspace to eliminate severe collision risks with regional executive charters, utility aircraft supporting local industry, and vital aeromedical evacuation flights.
The Aripuanã Airport (ICAO: SWRP), located in the municipality of Aripuanã, Mato Grosso, is an essential infrastructure asset for the remote northwest region of the state. The airport serves as a critical logistical lifeline for the municipality, handling an active flow of private executive flights, corporate transports linked to local mining and agribusiness operations, and emergency air ambulance services that connect the local population to advanced regional medical centers.
Because incoming and departing aircraft must execute low-altitude visual flight (VFR) traffic patterns and approaches directly over the surrounding rural properties, transport corridors, and growing urban areas, uncoordinated drone activity within this operational zone poses an immediate mid-air collision hazard. An accident in this airspace would drastically compromise regional logistics and emergency response infrastructure. Consequently, spontaneous or recreational drone flights within the airfield perimeter, its obstacle limitation surfaces, or its protective safety grids are completely prohibited under federal law (Brazilian Penal Code, Art. 261).