Jokkmokk military airfield

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Jokkmokk Airbase
Jokkmokk (Norrbotten)
Jokkmokk
Jokkmokk
Characteristics
ICAO code ESNJ
Coordinates

66 ° 29 '48 "  N , 20 ° 8' 51"  E Coordinates: 66 ° 29 '48 "  N , 20 ° 8' 51"  E
Height above MSL 275 m (902  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 19 km southeast of Jokkmokk , SwedenSwedenSweden 
Street Riksväg 97
Basic data
opening 1979
operator Försvarsmakten
Start-and runway
14/32 2000 m × 25 m asphalt



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The military airfield Jokkmokk ( English Jokkmokk Airbase , Swedish Jokkmokks flygbas ) is a Swedish military airfield area at the height of the Arctic Circle. The airbase is located about nineteen kilometers southeast of Jokkmokk , northwest of Vuollerim in the province of Norrbotten .

The airfield, which was built in the 1940s as an air force base at Anl 189 , originally consisted of four airfields that belonged to a disused air force base of the Bas90 system base ( Flygvapnet kod Fält 49 ). Jokkmokk Airfield 49 was the largest base in the Bas90 system.

In 1979, the eastern runway 14/32 was expanded with a runway length of 2000 meters, which can be used by civil aviation under the ICAO code ESNJ . Jokkmokk Airbase is now used by the Swedish Air Force only as a training airfield for transport and helicopter units.

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