Stavanger Airport

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Stavanger lufthavn, Sola
Sola flystasjon
Sola lufthavn.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code ENZV
IATA code SVG
Coordinates

58 ° 52 '36 "  N , 5 ° 38' 16"  E Coordinates: 58 ° 52 '36 "  N , 5 ° 38' 16"  E
Height above MSL 9 m (30  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 15 km southwest of Stavanger
Local transport bus
Basic data
opening May 29, 1937
operator Avinor
Luftforsvaret
Terminals 2
Passengers 4,178,241 (2017)
Air freight 6,538 t (2014)
Flight
movements 		72,541 (2017)
Runways
11/29 2449 m × 45 m asphalt
18/36 2556 m × 60 m asphalt

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The Stavanger airport ( Norwegian lufthavn Stavanger, Sola ; IATA Code : SVG , ICAO code : ENZV ) is the fourth largest airport in Norway with 4,178,241 passengers in 2017. The airport has international connections and is supported by the Norwegian Royal Air Force as Used military airfield . They refer to it as Sola flystasjon in particular as a base for the Norwegian sea rescue service ( Sea King redningsskvadron ).

The airport has two terminals, one for airplanes and one for helicopters. The airport has two runways that cross each other . The main runway for aircraft north-south (18/36) and the main runway for helicopters are in a north-west-south-east direction (11/29). Here is also the Flyhistorisk Museum , an aviation museum with a focus on military aviation.

location

The airport is located in the municipality of Sola , 15 km southwest of Stavanger in the province of Rogaland .

history

Stavanger Airport was built in 1937. It was one of the first airports in Europe with a permanently covered runway .

On April 9, 1940, the day of the German invasion of Denmark and Norway (" Operation Weser Exercise "), paratroopers (3rd Company , 1st Btl , 1st Paratrooper Division ) jumped over the airport and quickly captured it.

During the occupation period (1940-1945) the Germans built the airport for the Air Force to an airbase from. The Luftwaffe used it for both land and sea planes; during the first period of the occupation, various fighter and bomber units were stationed here for shorter periods of time. Later there were longer deployment phases.

In October 1940 the Bf 110 of the III. Group of Destroyer Squadron 76 (III./ZG 76) to Sola, it stayed here until May of the following year, after shortly before becoming the II. Group of Schnellkampfgeschwader 210 (II./SKG 210). The Bf 109E of the I. Group of the Jagdgeschwader 77 (I./JG 77) lay here between February 1941 and January 1942.

A longtime user was the distress squadron 5 , which operated from Sola between August 1941 and October 1944.

Aerial view of the airport from 2011

From February 1945, Stavanger became one of the few operational bases of the four-engine Ar 234 , the main user was a command of long-range reconnaissance group 5. After the German surrender, most of the new Arado turbine bombers that were still airworthy were in Sola. Some of the specimens were used there until September 1945 for test flights by the Americans and the British, the rest were shipped to the United States and the United Kingdom .

After the end of the war, Sola remained an important military airfield in Norway for several decades. The Norwegian Air Force stationed a number of different squadrons here during the first post-war years and especially after the start of the Cold War .

Just two weeks after the end of the war, the 331st Squadron of the British Royal Air Force, made up of Norwegians, arrived in Stavanger with their Spitfire Mk. IXE, which, however, was relocated in the same year. As early as January 1945, Sola was home to a flying boat squadron, whose task was also the SAR service. The 333rd Skvadron flew the Catalina until 1961 and the HU-16 for the following two years before being transferred to Northern Norway .

In 1949 Sola again became a fighter base, initially for two years from the Mosquito Mk.VI of the 334th Skvadron . The jet age began again in 1951 with the conversion of the squadron to the F-84G , which, together with the 331st squadron, which had arrived in 1953 and was meanwhile also equipped with F-84, were relocated to the north in 1955; in 1954, the 338th Skavdron was a third F-84 unit here for several months.

The 718th Skvadron was supposed to be here the longest . From 1952, your task was advanced training for new pilots. Equipped with vampires for the first two years , the conversion to the T-33A was already underway in 1953. After fifteen years of service, the squadron converted to the F-5A / B , which was also flown for fifteen years. In 1983 the 718th Squadron was decommissioned. Since then, military use has been limited to the operation of helicopters.

Military use

Sea King Mk.43, 2004

The Sola flystasjon is currently (2019) used by a flying squadron of the 134th Squadron :

Civil use

The airport is served by various European airlines, including KLM from Amsterdam and British Airways from London Heathrow . Domestic flights take place with Norwegian Air Shuttle and SAS Scandinavian Airlines , among others . In the summer months, Norwegian Air Shuttle flies twice a week from Berlin-Schönefeld to Stavanger. The large civilian helicopter base in particular for the North Sea - Offshore used traffic. Up until the start of the 2015/16 winter flight schedule, Lufthansa also flew to the airport from Frankfurt am Main three times a day .

Traffic figures

Source: Avinor
Source: Avinor
Stavanger Airport - traffic figures 1999-2017
year Passenger volume Air freight ( tons )
(with airmail )		 Aircraft movements
(with military)
2017 4,178,241 - 72,541
2016 4,193,665 - 77,950
2015 4,501,368 - 85,306
2014 4,721,971 6,538 90,862
2013 4,670,021 4,462 87,352
2012 4,413,987 5,018 86,158
2011 4,131,974 5,018 82,071
2010 3,674,816 5,199 79.161
2009 3,425,804 5,697 80.018
2008 3,552,579 9,667 82,118
2007 3,248,939 9,862 79.904
2006 3,109,920 6,957 75.131
2005 2,669,541 5,879 68,711
2004 2,562,324 5,541 69,980
2003 2,561,561 - 68,721
2002 2,570,969 7,377 68,724
2001 2,694,008 9,770 72,305
2000 2,847,352 9,986 72,476
1999 2,958,813 10,052 80,459

Incidents

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Statistics. Avinor.no , accessed on November 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Lufthansa Discontinues Stavanger Flights from late-Oct 2015. September 9, 2015, accessed on June 11, 2016 (English).
  3. ^ Accident report Viking 3B G-AHPM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on October 18, 2019.