Umeå Airport

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Umeå Airport
Umeå Airport, 2008
Characteristics
ICAO code ESNU
IATA code UME
Coordinates

63 ° 47 '35 "  N , 20 ° 16' 48"  E Coordinates: 63 ° 47 '35 "  N , 20 ° 16' 48"  E
Height above MSL 7 m (23  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 4.5 km south of Umeå
Street E4 E12
Local transport Airport bus, taxi
Basic data
opening 1961
operator Swedavia
Terminals 1
Passengers 1,057,373 (2016)
Air freight 375 t (2016)
Flight
movements 		24,562 (2016)
Employees 300 (2003)
Start-and runway
14/32 2302 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Umeå airport is named after the Luleå Airport is the second largest in northern Sweden (airport Norrland ).

With 1,057,373 passengers in 2016, it is the seventh largest in Sweden and is used as a domestic airport. Aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 767 can land in Umeå. The majority of flights serve the route to Stockholm / Arlanda Airport ; The flight time is between 1h and 1: 05h at a distance of around 500 kilometers. Colloquially, Alvik Airport is named after the district of Umeå in which it has been located since 1961. No airport in Sweden is closer to a city center. Before the construction, a grass runway was used for flights to Umeå near Nordmaling , about 50 kilometers further south of the current airport location.

In December 2008 the name of the airport was changed from Umeå flygplats to Umeå City Airport , on January 12, 2011 the operator Swedavia changed the name to Umeå Airport , analogous to the renaming of all ten airports operated by Swedavia according to the key city plus airport .

Aviation accidents

  • On 21 September 1992 began a IAI in 1124 by Air Sweden for a rejected takeoff fire and then was a total loss. The reason was a broken fan disk in the right turbofan engine. All seven occupants survived the fire. The flight should have gone to Arvidsjaur Airport .
  • On 14 July 2019 fell Gippsland GA-8 Airvan , the paratroopers transported to the island Storsandskär that two kilometers south of the airport is located. The flight had started from Umeå Airport. All nine inmates were killed.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c AIP SWEDEN ES-AD-2-ESNU. (PDF; 121 KB) In: lfv.se. LFV , June 25, 2015, accessed May 6, 2017 (Swedish, English).
  2. ↑ Passenger frequency at Swedish airports. (Excel; 277 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), February 20, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Freight frequency at Swedish airports. (Excel; 263 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), January 24, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ Landing frequency of the Swedish airports. (Excel; 258 KB) In: transportstyrelsen.se. Transportstyrelsen (Transport Authority), February 20, 2017, accessed May 6, 2017 (Swedish).
  5. ↑ Article of December 5, 2008 in Västerbottens-Kuriren (Swedish, no longer online)
  6. ↑ Press release from Swedavia from January 12th 2011 (Swedish, no longer online)
  7. ↑ Accident report on aviation-safety.net (English)
  8. ↑ Deaths in a crash in Sweden . Message on tagesschau.de from July 14, 2019