Kärdla Airport

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The Kärdla Airport (Estonian: Kärdla Lennujaam ) is an airport located in Estonia. The airport is located seven kilometers east of the city Kärdla, on the north coast of the second largest island in Estonia Hiiumaa.

The airport was built in 1963. From the 1960s to the 1980s there were regular connections to Tallinn, Haapsalu, Vormsi, Kuressaare, Riga, Pärnu, Viljandi and Tartu. Murmansk, Vilnius, Kaunas and Riga were also served by charter flights. The number of passengers in 1987 was 24 335. Since 1992 the number of passengers declined, so used in 1995 only 727 passengers used the airport. This was because the airline Aeroflot was in a crisis and the Estonian economy was restructured after independence. In 1998 the runway was renewed and the number of passengers rose again, so that in 2004, 8,840 passengers were counted.

Meanwhile, the airport for passenger and cargo flights around the clock can be used. Twice a day, the Estonian capital Tallinn is served from Monday to Friday, weekends once a day. The Estonian Air Force and Coast Guard use the Kärdla airport.

In the first weekend in August every year there will be a flight show.

On 23 November 2001 crashed an Antonov An-28 of the Estonian airline ELK Airways with 17 people on board en route from Tallinn to Kärdla. The plane crashed on landing in a 1.5 km distant from Kärdla Airport forest of the agricultural museum Soera near Palade on the island of Hiiumaa. Two people did not survive the crash.