Paraty Airport (IATA: JPY, ICAO: SDTK) is located in the Portão de Ferro II district, 2 km from the city centre.

History In mid-1949, a hydro-aerodrome was approved, which at the beginning of the following decade had regular operations with Catalina hydroplanes.

In July 1957, an airstrip with dimensions of 585m x 30m (heading 09/27) was homologated, where T6 and C-46 aircraft regularly landed.

Due to the construction of the BR-101 (known as Rio-Santos) and the gradual abandonment of the airfield, the Ministry of Aeronautics definitively banned it in June 1980.

In 1983, the Ministry of Aeronautics, together with the City Hall, joined forces to recover the airfield, which resulted in the Paraty Airport Development Plan, which foresaw its reuse to implement a 910 x 18m runway paved in asphalt or earth, the that didn't happen.

In 1991, the Ministry of Aeronautics, together with the City Hall and the private sector, reopened the airfield, with a runway now measuring 700m x 23m, with capacity for aircraft weighing 2,500 kg.

In 1995 and 1996, with a partnership between the Union and the Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, through the Federal Airport Assistance Program, it was possible to carry out several improvement works at the airport, such as paving the runways, taxi and aircraft parking lot, inclusion of 200m in the stop zone at threshold 10, drainage, fencing of the airport site and daytime signaling.