Andøya Airport, Andenes

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Andøya lufthavn, Andenes
Andøya flystasjon
Norwegian P-3C
Characteristics
ICAO code ENAN
IATA code ANX
Coordinates

69 ° 17 '33 "  N , 16 ° 8' 39"  E Coordinates: 69 ° 17 '33 "  N , 16 ° 8' 39"  E
Height above MSL 13 m (43  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 1 km south of Andenes
Basic data
opening 1957
operator Luftforsvaret
Avinor AS
Passengers 61,510 (2017)
Air freight 1 t (2014)
Flight
movements 		3,640 (2017)
Runways
03/21 1672 m × 45 m asphalt
14/32 2468 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Andøya Airport ( norw. Andøya lufthavn, Andenes ) is a civil mitgenutzter military airfield in Norway . The Norwegian Air Force Luftforsvaret refer to it as Andøya flystasjon . It is located in the municipality of Andøy on the northern tip of the island of Andøya, about 100 km as the crow flies southwest of Tromsø in the province of Nordland .

history

In contrast to many of the other more important airfields in Norway, Andøya Air Station did not yet exist during the Second World War . It was only initiated at the beginning of the Cold War with a NATO budget as a joint project of the Allied Commanders-in-Chief for Europe and the Atlantic for a base for maritime surveillance. Construction began in 1952 and all facilities that were not directly required for airfield operations were erected in Skarsteindalen, 12 km away.

The first flight movement took place on September 17, 1954, but permanent flight operations at the station did not begin until autumn 1957. Andøya became home to the 333rd Squadron ( Skvadron ) in 1963 , which was initially equipped with the HU-16 Albatross . These were replaced by Lockheed P-3 Orion from 1969 .

The station was expanded in the early 1970s, for which the neighboring village of Haugnes fell victim to the expansion.

Soldiers in front of a hangar at Andøya Air Station

With the establishment of the military airfield , the idea of ​​civil sharing of the existing infrastructure came up. The location, although located on its northern edge, promised a convenient connection to the Vesterålen archipelago . The SAS started night flights from Andesnes to Oslo-Fornebu in 1964 , with stopovers in Bodø and Bardufoss , where Convair Metropolitans were used. From 1965 the Sud Aviation Caravelle was first used, which in turn was later replaced by the Douglas DC-9 .

A disadvantage of the night flights was the inadequate transfer options to other public transport such as ferries or buses. The economic viability of the connection was increasingly called into question at the beginning of the 1970s after the opening of a few new small airfields in central Helgeland , which were designed for the operation of " STOL " aircraft. Widerøe took up a connection to Oslo with the smaller de Havilland Canada Twin Otter in 1972 and four years later SAS completely ceased operations to Andøya. Widerøe used the 50-seater DHC-7 from 1981 and the DHC-8 from 1993 .

On April 1, 2003, Norwegian Air Shuttle took over the connection from Andenes to Bodø and Tromsø. The airline decided after a short time. At the beginning of 2004, Widerøe again took over the operation of Andesnes, which continues to operate the connection with a brief interruption in 2006/2007. In addition, Norwegian has served Oslo occasionally since June 2012 , using Boeing 737-800s .

Military use

The base is currently (2016) used as follows:

  • 333. Skvadron , the squadron is armed with P-3C / N Orion patrol aircraft. Their patrol flights serve both military and civilian purposes. After the P-3 will be phased out in a few years, the air force will give up Andøya for cost reasons and station the successor model in Evenes , about 100 km further south .

There are also other non-flying units.

Civil use

The airport has national connections with the low-cost airline Norwegian (Oslo) and the regional airline Widerøe (destinations in Northern Norway).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Passengers 2017. (Excel (xlsx); 28 KB) In: avinor.no. Avinor , accessed September 14, 2018 (Norwegian / English).
  2. ↑ Frakt og Post 2014. (Excel (xlsx); 22 KB) In: avinor.no. Avinor , accessed September 14, 2018 (Norwegian / English).
  3. ↑ Flight movements 2017. (Excel (xlsx); 66 KB) In: avinor.no. Avinor , accessed September 14, 2018 (Norwegian / English).
  4. ^ Norway reveals P-3 replacement plans, Flightglobal, June 21, 2016