Kangerlussuaq Airport

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The Kangerlussuaq Airport ( IATA: SFJ, ICAO code: BGSF, also Sondre Strømfjord Airport ) is the main international airport in Greenland. He served the region around Kangerlussuaq. Simultaneously, the airport is the major hub of Air Greenland.

Due to the sheltered location and the temperatures just above zero degrees Celsius (average) are the flight conditions at the airport well, wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 747 could land here.

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Air Greenland flies to the Greenland Aasiaat places, Ilulissat, Kulusuk, Maniitsoq, Nuuk, Sisimiut and Uummannaq. Moreover, the compounds exist in the Danish capital Copenhagen and Iqaluit in Canada. The previously existing flight to the USA to Baltimore was removed in March 2008 again from the flight plan. Furthermore, Air Iceland plans to fly to Kangerlussuaq with a Dash 8 from Airport Reykjavik in Iceland.

History

The airport was founded on 7 October 1941 as a U.S. Army base. Even today, the military uses this place as a strategic base. So the New York Air National Guard ( NYANG ), where it maintains a foothold among others for Hercules machines that are equipped with skids for landing on the ice. Objectives are, for example, the research stations Camp Summit Camp North Camp Raven Grip or where in the summer months for soldiers survival training is carried out in the ice.

Due to the lower range of the aircraft that time the airport had a high strategic importance for transatlantic traffic.

During the Berlin Blockade 1948/49, the airport was regarded as a way station for the necessary food from the U.S..