Bardufoss airport

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Bardufoss lufthavn
Bardufoss flystasjon
Bardufoss' runway
Characteristics
ICAO code ENDO
IATA code BDU
Coordinates

69 ° 3 '21 "  N , 18 ° 32' 25"  E Coordinates: 69 ° 3 '21 "  N , 18 ° 32' 25"  E
Height above MSL 77 m (253  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 1 km south of Bardufoss
Basic data
opening 1938
operator Luftforsvaret
Avinor AS
Passengers 243,104 (2017)
Air freight 62 t (2014)
Flight
movements 		6,871 (2017)
Start-and runway
07/25 2443 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Bardufoss Airport ( norw. Bardufoss lufthavn ) is a civil mitgenutzter military airfield in Norway . The Norwegian Air Force Luftforsvaret refer to it as Bardufoss flystasjon and use it as the main base for their helicopter squadrons. It is located in the area of Bardufoss in the municipality of Målselv in the province of Troms og Finnmark, about 30 km as the crow flies south of Tromsø (130 km by road).

history

Bardufoss was designated as an emergency landing site by the Norwegian Army Aviation Service in 1934 and the first test flights were carried out in mid-1936. The initially very small airfield was expanded continuously over the next four years.

The airport was built during the Second World War by the German army at a military airfield of the Air Force expanded with two concrete runways, but the easterly located north-south railway was not operated.

Aerial view, looking east, 2012

In the first years of the German occupation , flying units were only occasionally stationed at the airfield. At the turn of the year 1941/1942 this included the I. Group of Kampfgeschwader 26 (I./KG 26) with He 111H . In the summer of 1942, the III./KG 30 was added to fight northern sea convoys from here .

Bardufoss became an important base, especially in the last six months of the war, on which a number of different associations were based. The III./KG 26 returned to Bardufoss for four months in September 1944, now equipped with a Ju 88A . In November 1944, the associations also included three squadrons of Jagdgeschwader 5 (JG 5) equipped with Bf 109G and Fw 190A , whose task, among other things, was to protect the Tirpitz near Tromsø . However , they could not prevent the destruction of this battleship . Another user was the 1st squadron of the reconnaissance group (F) 124 (1st / Aufkl.Gr. 124), which was equipped with a small number of different types of aircraft and operated from Bardufoss between November 1944 and March 1945.

After the end of the war, the Luftvorsfaret took over the base. Between 1949 and July 1952, the 332 Skvadron , which was equipped with Spitfire Mk. IXE , was the last Norwegian Spitfire squadron.

SAC - C-141B , Bardufoss, 1982

In 1952/1953, after the outbreak of the Cold War, NATO financed a further expansion of the east-west railway to a length of 2.5 km. Bardufoss has since served NATO as a replenishment base. Since then, American transport machines have repeatedly come to Bardufoss for maneuvers .

The civil joint use began in 1956 when the SAS began flight operations. Besides Bodø Airport , Bardufoss was the only such usable airport in Northern Norway at that time. Braathens became the second airline to add Bardufoss to its flight schedule in 1967, and a new civil handling terminal was opened in 1972. With the opening of the airports in Tromsø and Harstad in 1964 and 1973, the importance of Bardufoss for civil aviation decreased.

In 1964 it was used as a base for helicopters. The 339th Squadron flew the Bell UH-1B until 1988 and converted to the more modern Bell 412SP from 1987 onwards .

The Norwegian armed forces had their own charter operation until 1992. This task was taken over by civil scheduled airlines and the Oslo route served Braathens from 1998. A new terminal opened in 2004 and Norwegian Air Shuttle has been operating the Oslo route since 2008 .

Military use

The Bardufoss flystasjon is currently (2013) used by the following flying squadrons of the 139th squadron:

  • 334. Skvadron , on behalf of the Navy equipped with on-board helicopters NH90 ASW for the Fridtjof Nansen class planned, the aircraft are from 2016 especially the naval base Haakonsvern used
  • 337. Skvadron , equipped with Lynx Mk.86 on- board helicopters for the Nordkapp class on behalf of the Coast Guard , since January 1980, conversion to NH90-NFH since December 2011
  • 339. Skvadron equipped with transport helicopters Bell 412SP , since 1987
  • 718. Skvadron equipped with drones , the drones were taken over by the Navy in November 2006
  • Luftforsvarets Flygeskole , flight school equipped with T-17 , since 2002

  • Lynx Mk.86, Bardufoss, 1998

  • Bell 412SP, 2002

  • T-17, Bardufoss, 1998

  • 737 of the SAS, Bardufoss, 2008

Civil use

The airport is scheduled to be served by Norwegian Air Shuttle with a connection to Oslo , and the armed forces are also a main user of the line. In 2012 a good 200,000 passengers were handled.

Incidents

Web links

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

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. ^ Leo Niehorster : German Airforce, Order of Battle 5th. Air Fleet, Air force Commander Lofoten June 1, 1942 , accessed May 10, 2015