Bodø Airport

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The Bodo Airport ( norw Bodø lufthavn ) is a civil mitgenutzter military airfield in Norway. The Norwegian Air Force Luftforsvaret call him Bodø hovedflystasjon. It is situated in the area of ​​Bodø on the west tip of a peninsula in the province of Nordland.

There is also the Norsk Luftfartsmuseum.

History

The aviation began in Bodø in the early 1920s with mail flights and in the years before the Second World War, the city of seaplane company Widerøe was served.

After the start of the invasion of Norway by the German Wehrmacht, during the course of the subsequent landing of British forces in the north in the spring of 1940 for the construction of an existing wooden planks first start and runway by British troops. The first Gloster Gladiator interceptors of the Royal Air Force met the end of May on the new airfield. After taking the city by the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe took over the airfield and developed it to an airfield with concrete runway. A user was from January to April 1942, equipped with Bf 109E 7th Season of Jagdgeschwader 5 ( 7./JG 5). To increased flight operations returned it in the last half year of the war.

Only by the beginning of the Cold War, it was the early 1950s, a revival of the located on the northern flank of NATO airfield. A new airfield was slightly southwest of the former air base. This was opened in 1952 for civilian air traffic and a few years later for military flight operations. NATO invested towards the end of the decade again considerably around the base to enable them to be able to accommodate a larger air force in an emergency.

In 1955 the station was home base of two combat squadrons, the 331st and 334th Skavadron. Both flew initially with the F- 84G, but upgraded in 1957 and 1958 respectively to F- 86F, which were replaced by F - 86K at the 334th in 1960. The F -86 was in turn replaced in the 331 squadron in August 1963 F/RF/TF-104G, which she used until 1981. The 334th squadron flew in 1967, initially for a few years, the F- 5A / B and received 1973 CF -104, which were in service until 1982.

Next to it was here since the beginning of 1966 the 719th Skvadron, which was fitted up in 1990 with UH- 1B helicopters and light DHC -6 vans. While the helicopter were taken in 1990 from the operation, the squadron existed as a pure transport aircraft squadron until the year 2000 on.

In June 1975, the Concorde came to test flights to Bodo.

The F -16 era began in 1981 and 1982 respectively in the two Bodøer seasons. As part of a troop reduction the 332nd Skvadron came in May 2002 from Rygge to Bodø during the 334th in the same year was decommissioned.

The plans for a new civilian clearance terminal began in the early 1980s, the implementation of the project but was taken in 1988 in attack and in the spring of 1990, the terminal with eleven gates, three of which, completed with passenger boarding bridges. Passenger numbers were at the opening at 820,000 per year and increased to 1,700,000 in 2011.

Military use

The Bodø is hovedflystasjon used at the time (2013 ) by following the flying squadrons of the 132nd Squadron:

• 331 and 332 Skvadron, equipped with F-16AM/BM, the former operates the F-16 since 1981 in Bodø, the latter moved in 2002 to Bodo
• Detachment of the 330th Skvadron ( subordinate to the 137th Squadron ) equipped with Sea King Mk.43 helicopters rescue

The squadron under Furthermore, there is not flying the Luftforsvaret associations such as the joint headquarters of the Norwegian armed forces in neighboring Reitan and Stasjonsgruppe Banak at the local airfield.

Civil use

Bodø is the intra Norwegian regular services to air transport, offering a helicopter link, and Norwegian Air Shuttle, SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Widerøe 's Flyveselskap served, which serves Norwegian and international destinations.

There are also a number of seasonal international charter airlines.

In 2011 1.556.924 passengers were handled.