Gustaf III Airport

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Coordinates: 17°54′16″N 062°50′38″W / 17.90444, -62.84389

Gustaf III Airport Saint Barthélemy Airport Aérodrome de St Jean
IATA: SBH – ICAO: TFFJ
Summary
Airport type		Public
Serves		Saint Barthélemy
Location		St. Jean
Elevation AMSL		48 ft / 15 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
10/28	650	2,133	Concrete
Source: French AIP^[1]

Map of Saint Barthélemy with location of airport.

Gustaf III Airport^[2] (IATA: SBH^[2], ICAO: TFFJ^[1]), also known as Saint Barthélemy Airport or St. Jean Airport (French: Aérodrome de St Jean^[1]), is a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy. Both the airport and the island's main town of Gustavia are named for King Gustav III of Sweden, under whom Sweden obtained the island from France in 1785 (it was sold back to France in 1878).

The airport is served by small regional commercial aircraft and charters. Most visiting aircraft carry fewer than twenty passengers, such as the Twin Otter, a common sight around Saint Barth and throughout the northern West Indies. The short airstrip is at the base of a gentle slope ending directly on the beach. The arrival descent is extremely steep over the hilltop traffic circle and departing planes fly right over the heads of sunbathers (although small signs advise sunbathers not to lie directly at the end of the runway).