Bodø Airport

Bodø lufthavn Bodø hovedflystasjon
Characteristics
ICAO code	ENBO
IATA code	BOO
Coordinates	67 ° 16 '9 "  N , 14 ° 21' 55"  E Coordinates: 67 ° 16 '9 "  N , 14 ° 21' 55"  E
Height above MSL	13 m (43  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	1 km southeast of Bodø
Street	Riksvei 80
Basic data
opening	1952
operator	Luftforsvaret Avinor AS
Terminals	1
Passengers	1,831,407 (2017)
Air freight	2,273 t (2014)
Flight movements	43,625 (2017)
Start-and runway
07/25	3394 m × 45 m concrete

The Bodo Airport ( norw. Bodø lufthavn ) is a civil mitgenutzter military airfield in Norway . The Norwegian Air Force Luftforsvaret refer to it as Bodø hovedflystasjon . It is located in the area of ​​the city of Bodø on the western tip of a peninsula in the province of Nordland .

The Norsk Luftfartsmuseum is also located here .

history

Aviation began in Bodø in the early 1920s with mail flights and in the years before the Second World War , the city was served by seaplanes from the company Widerøe .

After the beginning of the invasion of Norway by the German Wehrmacht , during the subsequent landing of British forces in the north in the spring of 1940, British troops built a first runway made of wooden planks. The first Gloster Gladiator interceptors of the Royal Air Force arrived in late May on the new airfield. After the city fell to the Wehrmacht took over Air Force airfield and built him an air base in concrete runway. One user between January and April 1942 was the 7th squadron of Jagdgeschwader 5 (7./JG 5) equipped with Bf 109E . The flight operations only increased again in the last six months of the war.

It was not until the beginning of the Cold War that the airfield on NATO's northern flank was revitalized in the early 1950s . A new airfield was built a little southwest of the former air base. This was opened in 1952 for civil flight operations and a few years later for military flight operations. Towards the end of the decade, NATO again invested heavily in order to put the base in a position to be able to accommodate a larger air force in an emergency.

Terminal building at Bodø Airport

From 1955 the station was the home base of two combat squadrons, the 331st and 334th Skavadron . Both initially flew with the F-84G , but converted to F-86F in 1957 and 1958, respectively , which were replaced by F-86K on the 334th in 1960. The F-86 in turn was replaced from August 1963 in the 331st Squadron by F / RF / TF-104G , which it used until 1981. The 334th Squadron flew the F-5A / B for a few years from 1967 and received CF-104s in 1973, which were in service until 1982.

In addition, the 719th Skvadron , which was equipped with UH-1B helicopters and light DHC-6 transporters until 1990 , had been lying here since the beginning of 1966 . While the helicopters were taken out of service in 1990, the squadron continued to exist as a pure transport aircraft squadron until 2000.

In June 1975 the Concorde came to Bodø for test flights.

The F-16 era began in 1981 and 1982 with the two Bodø squadrons. As part of a troop reduction, the 332nd Skvadron came from Rygge to Bodø in May 2002 while the 334th was decommissioned in the same year.

The planning for a new civilian clearance terminal began in the early 1980s, the implementation of the project but was tackled only in 1988 and in early 1990 the terminal was eleven piers , three of them with passenger boarding bridges completed. The number of passengers when it opened was 820,000 a year and rose to 1,831,407 by 2017.

Planned renovation

In March 2017, after long planning, the Storting decided that the airport would be massively rebuilt. Among other things, the entire runway is to be relocated around 900 meters to the south. This should create space for larger port facilities and urgently needed apartments. The total cost is estimated to be between NOK 4.5 and 7.5 billion (around EUR 490–769 million). The renovation should start around 2020/2021 and be completed in 2024/2025.

Military use

F-16 Rotte taking off, Bodø, 1982

The Bodø hovedflystasjon is currently (2017) used by the following flying squadrons of the 132nd Squadron:

• 331st and 332nd Skvadron , equipped with F-16AM / BM , the former has been operating the F-16 in Bodø since 1981, the latter relocated to Bodø in 2002
• Detachment of the 330th Skvadron (under the 137th Squadron), equipped with Sea King Mk.43 rescue helicopters

The squadron is also responsible for non-flying units of the Luftforsvaret such as the joint headquarters of the Norwegian armed forces in neighboring Reitan and the Stasjonsgruppe Banak at the airfield there.

With the planned replacement of the F-16 squadrons by F-35 combat aircraft (2017-2019) and the associated centralization in Ørland , only the rescue helicopter squadron is to remain in Bodø.

Airlines and Destinations

Widerøe De Havilland DHC-8 , Bodø, 2010

Bodø is served by air transport, which offers a helicopter connection, as well as Norwegian Air Shuttle , SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Widerøe's Flyveselskap , with Norwegian also serving international destinations. In addition, there are a number of international charter airlines , especially during the holiday periods.

Traffic figures

Source: Avinor

Source: Avinor

Bodø Airport - traffic figures 1999–2017

year	Passenger volume	Air freight ( tons ) (with airmail )	Aircraft movements (with military)
2017	1,831,407	-	43,625
2016	1,801,249	-	43,982
2015	1,733,330	-	42.902
2014	1,703,597	2,273	43,392
2013	1,670,451	1.910	42,531
2012	1,730,656	1,909	43,507
2011	1,736,754	2,072	43,520
2010	1,611,869	2,058	42,420
2009	1,554,458	2,317	41,782
2008	1,500,115	2,793	43.505
2007	1.005.119	2,889	44,149
2006	1.430.302	4,188	44.176
2005	880.719	4,588	44,358
2004	868.064	3,748	43,790
2003	1,242,825	-	43,381
2002	1,275,229	3,000	41,820
2001	1,436,456	3,551	48,458
2000	1,444,237	4,898	48,218
1999	1,486,628	5,427	48,515

Web links

Commons : Bodø Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the civil airport (English, Norwegian)
• Official website of the civil airport operator (English, Norwegian)
• Website of the 132nd Luftving on the homepage of the Air Force in Norwegian (in Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Statistics. Avinor.no , accessed November 20, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Jørgen Elnæs: Two new airports planned in northern Norway - only 100km apart. February 12, 2018; Retrieved January 24, 2019 (UK English). 
3. ↑ gates Aune: Får lufthavn til fem milliarder - slik blir nye Bodo. (No longer available online.) In: Luftfart.Media. February 28, 2017, archived from the original on March 1, 2017 ; Retrieved April 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.