Oslo Airport Fornebu
Oslo Airport Fornebu | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | ENFB |
IATA code | FBU |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 17 m (56 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 7 km southwest of Oslo |
Basic data | |
opening | June 1, 1939 |
closure | October 8, 1998 |
operator | Luftfartsverket (NCAA) |
Runways | |
06/24 | 2370 m of asphalt |
01/19 | 1200 m of asphalt |
Oslo-Fornebu Airport (Norwegian: Oslo lufthavn, Fornebu ) was the main airport for Oslo and Norway until it was closed on October 8, 1998 . It was located in Bærum parish and opened on June 1, 1939. Fornebu ceased operations on October 8, 1998 when Oslo-Gardermoen Airport opened to civilian air traffic. The plant area for seaplanes remained in operation after the closure until today.
history
Since the beginning of commercial aviation, conventional planes to Oslo landed at the Kjeller airfield and seaplanes at Gressholmen , which was an unfavorable solution for the Oslo region. The city of Oslo therefore decided at the end of the 1920s, together with the Norwegian Ministry of Defense, to build a new airport. They selected Fornebu, a peninsula in the Bærum Municipality, as a suitable location. The city of Oslo bought the land and began construction.
When the airport opened on June 1, 1939, it had three runways (two with a length of 800 m and one with a length of 700 m), as well as a facility for seaplanes. The airport comprised numerous buildings, including an administration building, a hangar, a control tower and a terminal building. The first aircraft to land in Fornebu was a Douglas DC-2 operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines .
In Operation Weser Exercise , the Wehrmacht conquered Denmark and Norway on April 9, 1940. Two aircraft (Ju 52) with a total of 18 paratroopers and 50 infantrymen on board took Fornebu. Then in April 1940 the Kampfgeschwader 4 was located here . During World War II the advanced German Wehrmacht as squatters Airport to other buildings and an additional north / south runway with a length of 1200 meters.
After the war, the city of Oslo transferred the airport to the Norwegian state, with the proviso that the city would get the land back once the airport was closed. In 1962 an east-west runway with a length of 2370 m was put into operation and in 1964 a new terminal building was opened, which was expanded by three gates at the end of the 1960s.
Capacity problems in the 1980s and 1990s
In its last expansion stage, Fornebu Airport was dimensioned for a volume of two million passengers per year. In 1996, the annual volume already reached the ten million mark, and operating capacity was also reached in the morning and in the afternoon. There was only one usable runway and no expansion options, as the area is limited to three and a half sides by the Oslofjord . The aircraft noise caused problems in the nearby residential areas and despite the proximity to the center of Oslo (about seven kilometers) there was no efficient public transport. The only reasonable solution was therefore to build a new airport.
After two decades of discussion about a “new main airport” and after examining locations such as Rygge or Hurum , Parliament decided in 1990 to build the new airport instead of an existing airfield as Oslo-Gardermoen Airport , 56 km north of Oslo. On October 8, 1998, the last aircraft took off from Fornebu and the following night all airport operations moved to the new location.
After the closure
After the airport closed, a major project began to build a research facility for information technology and telecommunications companies, and Telenor was the largest company . In addition to a large building complex, the Telenor Arena football and event hall , in which the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 took place, was built.
Incidents
From 1946 until it was closed on October 8, 1998, there were 9 total aircraft losses at Oslo-Fornebu Airport and in its vicinity. In 5 of them 102 people were killed. Extracts:
- On May 22, 1946, the left engine of a Junkers Ju 52 / 3m2e of Det Norske Luftfartselskap (DNL) ( aircraft registration LN-LAB ) failed shortly after take-off from Oslo-Fornebu Airport. When trying a reverse curve it came to the stall , the machine grazed treetops and crashed into a house on the southern edge of the airport. Of the 13 occupants, only one survived.
- On April 14, 1963, a Vickers Viscount 759D ( TF-ISU ) of Flugfélag Íslands crashed six kilometers from the airport while approaching Oslo-Fornebu. The plane started in Copenhagen was supposed to fly back to Reykjavík via Oslo and Bergen . All twelve occupants were killed, eight passengers and four crew members (see also the Nesøya accident ) .
- On December 23, 1972, a Fokker F28-1000 Fellowship of Braathens SAFE (now SAS Norge) (LN-SUY) was flown into a mountain while approaching Oslo-Fornebu Airport (CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain ). In the accident 40 of the 45 occupants were killed (all 3 crew members and 37 passengers). During the approach, the master had a private radio conversation with the air traffic controller about Christmas topics. The machine got more than 7 kilometers off course and 500 meters under the glide path until it finally hit the forest 16 kilometers west of the airport (see also Braathens SAFE flight 239 ) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45, Norway , pp 27-28 , accessed on January 17, 2015
- ↑ List of accidents at Oslo-Fornebu Airport , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase , accessed on February 13, 2019.
- ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 43 (English), December 1991, pp. 91/108.
- ^ Accident report Ju 52 LN-LAB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 7, 2017.
- ↑ Accident report Viscount 700 TF-ISU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 25, 2018.
- ↑ Accident report F28-1000 LN-SUY , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 13, 2019.