Brønnøysund Airport

Brønnøysund airway
Characteristics
ICAO code	ENBN
IATA code	BNN
Coordinates	65 ° 27 '40 "  N , 12 ° 13' 3"  E Coordinates: 65 ° 27 '40 "  N , 12 ° 13' 3"  E
Height above MSL	8 m (26  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	0.7 km southeast of Brønnøysund , Norway
Basic data
opening	1968
Passengers	118,344 (2017)
Air freight	39 t (2014)
Flight movements	7,854 (2017)
Start-and runway
04/22	1200 m × 30 m asphalt

Widerøe De Havilland DHC-8-100 on the Brønnøysund lufthavn

The Brønnøysund lufthavn, Brønnøy ( IATA : BNN , ICAO : ENBN ) is the airport of the municipality Brønnøy in the Norwegian province of Nordland . It is located approx. 700 m southeast of the city of Brønnøysund . The airport is owned and operated by the Norwegian company Avinor AS. In 2008, the airport had a total of 87,247 passengers, 16,794 of them with helicopters.

history

Twin Otter of Widerøe lufthavn, the first aircraft in regular service with the Brønnøysund

The airport opened on June 30, 1968. The airline Widerøe carried out its first scheduled flight a day later with a STOL Twin Otter aircraft on the route to Helgeland.

The terminal has been expanded several times. First in 1982 to handle more passengers and luggage, as the Twin Otter were replaced by the larger de Havilland Canada DHC-7 , then in 2004 because of new safety requirements. Finally, in 2008 a new terminal building was completed and the new heliport opened.

The runway initially had a length of 800 meters. In 1987 it was extended to 1000 meters and in 1999 to its current length of 1200 meters.

The control tower from 1968 was replaced by a new building in 2000. The airport has been equipped with radar since 2010 .

Air traffic

Widerøe has scheduled flights from Brønnøysund to Bodø , Mo i Rana , Oslo , Trondheim , Rørvik and Sandnessjøen .

Charter flights are operated by Svenska Direktflyg and Bergen Air Transport to Værnes , among others .

In addition, the Brønnøysund lufthavn is used for rescue and ambulance flights and as a starting point for helicopter flights to drilling platforms .

Incidents

• On May 6, 1988 flew from Namsos coming de Havilland Canada DHC-7 of Widerøe ( air vehicle registration number LN-WFN ) 8 km from the airport in the approach to the mountain Torghatten . It had flown in with low clouds at too low an altitude. All 36 people on board were killed - this was the worst accident with this aircraft type until April 2017.

Web links

• Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy. Avinor AS, accessed May 1, 2016 . 
• Aerial view of Brønnøysund lufthavn. airliners.net, accessed August 8, 2010 . 

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. ↑ ^{a b c d} Lufthavens history. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 25, 2012 ; Retrieved August 8, 2010 (Norwegian). 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.  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Direct udder. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 28, 2010 ; Retrieved August 8, 2010 (Norwegian). 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.  
6. ^ Accident report DHC-7 LN-WFN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 16, 2016.