Sogndal Airport
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Coordinates | 61°09′26″N 007°08′17″E / 61.15722°N 7.13806°E | ||||||||||
Website | avinor.no | ||||||||||
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Sogndal Airport (
The airport opened on 1 July 1971 along with three other regional airports in Sogn og Fjordane and Sunnmøre. These were at first connected to Bergen and Ålesund using the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter. From the 1980s the airport was upgraded and de Havilland Canada Dash 7 started being used, allowing all-year services to Oslo.
History
A government commission, led by
As an alternative location for the airport to serve Sogn, Høyanger was considered and test flights were flown there. Also Gaupne was considered by an industrial conglomerate led by Aker, although also these plans were shelved. Haukåsen was therefore selected as the site of the airport. Mayor of Sogndal, Nils Knagenhjelm, offered a free section of land at Haukåsen if the airport was located there. He had built a road to the area in the 1960s. The terms were accepted and the land and the road were taken over by the airport at the time of the aerodrome's completion.[5]
The regional airports only received a simple terminal and an 800-meter (2,600 ft) runway. The first such airports were opened in
The airport initially consisted of an integrated terminal and works building with a control tower.[7] Sogndal Airport received a runway measuring 800 by 30 meters (2,625 by 98 ft) and an apron measuring 70 by 45 meters (230 by 148 ft).[8] Services were provided by Widerøe, which operated the 19-seat de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter to Bergen Airport, Flesland and Ålesund Airport, Vigra.[8]
The road to the airport was frequently closed and in 1978 a dorm was built to allow the employees to overnight should they get caught by a blizzard. A new fire station was built in the early 1980s.[7] This allowed Widerøe to introduce the de Havilland Canada Dash 7 on the route from Florø and Sogndal to Oslo Airport, Fornebu in September 1983.[9] This was followed up with a new and larger terminal and the renovation of the tower in 1985.[7] Widerøe replaced its Twin Otters and Dash 7s with the de Havilland Canada Dash 8 in the early 1990s.[10]
Ownership of the airport passed from Sogndal Municipality to the Civil Aviation Administration (later renamed Avinor) on 1 January 1997.[11] Airport security was introduced on 1 January 2005.[12] The airport was upgraded between 2004 and 2007 with expanded safety areas, lights, land- and air-side parking, a new arrival terminal, navigational system and additional garage space.
Facilities
Sogndal Airport is situated in the heights of the Haukåsen in Sogndal, situated 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) from Kaupanger and 20 kilometers (12 mi) from Sogndalsfjæra. It is the sole airport serving the district of Sogn.
The airport is situated twenty minutes drive from the town center. There is an airport coach service operated by
Airlines and destinations
Widerøe provides the only scheduled services at Sogndal Airport. They are operated as public service obligation with the
Operation of the airport ran at a deficit of NOK 22 million in 2012.[15] In addition the routes are subsidies at a cost of NOK 329 per passenger for the .[16] Sogndal Airport served 70,244 passengers, 5,735 aircraft movements and handled 5 tonnes of cargo.[2]
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Statistics
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References
- ^ a b c "ENSG – Sogndal/Haukåsen" (PDF). Aeronautical Information Publication Norway. Avinor. Retrieved 12 January 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Månedsrapport" (XLS). Avinor. 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ a b Svanberg: 662–663
- ^ a b c "Lufthavnens historie" (in Norwegian). Avinor. Archived from the original on 27 February 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
- Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Gynnild, Olav (2009). "Flyplassenes og flytrafikkens historie". Kulturminner på norske lufthavner – Landsverneplan for Avinor (in Norwegian). Avinor. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ^ a b Arnesen: 119
- ^ Arnesen: 138
- ^ Olsen, Claude Roland; Ottesen, Gregers (19 February 1993). "Fred. Olsens milliardkupp". Dagens Næringsliv (in Norwegian). p. 5.
- ^ Rapp, Ole Magnus (27 July 1994). "Staten kjøper flyplasser på krita". Aftenposten (in Norwegian). p. 4.
- ^ Solberg, Pål E. (30 September 2004). "Tre usikre flyplasser i Midt-Norge". Adresseavisen (in Norwegian). p. 4.
- ^ "To and from the airport". Avinor. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ISSN 0808-1190.
- Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ Larsen: 18
Bibliography
- Arnesen, Odd (1984). På grønne vinger over Norge (in Norwegian). Widerøe's Flyveselskap.
- Svanberg, Erling (1990). Langs vei og lei i Nordland: samferdsel i Nordland gjennom 3000 år (in Norwegian). Nordland County Municipality. ISBN 82-7416-021-5.