Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen

I1 i3

I7 i10 i12

The airport Kirkenes Høybuktmoen is an airport in Norway and is located about ten kilometers west of the center of Kirkenes.

The airport has a paved, 2,045 -meter-long airstrip (06 /24), all of which are handled by civil aircraft movements. A second, about 1,200 meters long, starting and runway (15 /33), which was provided in the military planning of the airport, was still created, but is not currently attached, and is not currently used.

History

During the Second World War, the German Air Force built the airport with two star-shaped start and runways (1,000 m and 1,200 m). A long-time users was between February 1941 and August 1944, the first season of the reconnaissance group 124 ( 1 (F) / 124 ), the most -used type of aircraft, the Ju 88D was.

This first airport was destroyed by retreating Germans. The civilian Kirkenes airport was reopened in 1963.

Compounds

From Kirkenes from booting machines to Alta, Berlevåg, Båtsfjord, Hammerfest, Honningsvåg, Lakselv, Mehamn, Murmansk, Oslo, Sørkjosen, Tromsø, Vadsø and Vardo. The compounds are flown by airlines SAS Scandinavian Airlines and Widerøe. In addition, Copenhagen, Cologne / Bonn, Munich and Sundsvall are served by charter flights. It primarily come the medium and short -haul flight patterns Boeing 737, Airbus A320, Bombardier Q Series used.