Oslo Airport Fornebu

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oslo Airport Fornebu
Un avion DC-9-21 de la compagnie aérienne scandinave SAS.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code ENFB
IATA code FBU
Coordinates

59 ° 53 '45 "  N , 10 ° 37' 2"  E Coordinates: 59 ° 53 '45 "  N , 10 ° 37' 2"  E
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.

The airport in April 1940 under German occupation

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

The (former) airport building.

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 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

Commons : Oslo Airport, Fornebu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henry L. deZeng IV: Air Force Airfields 1935-45, Norway , pp 27-28 , accessed on January 17, 2015
  2. ↑ List of accidents at Oslo-Fornebu Airport , Aviation Safety Network WikiBase , accessed on February 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 43 (English), December 1991, pp. 91/108.
  4. ^ Accident report Ju 52 LN-LAB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 7, 2017.
  5. ↑ Accident report Viscount 700 TF-ISU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 25, 2018.
  6. ↑ Accident report F28-1000 LN-SUY , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 13, 2019.