Moss Airport, Rygge

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The Moss Airport Rygge ( Moss norw lufthavn, Rygge ) is a commercial airport as an international civil mitgenutzter military airfield of the Royal Norwegian Air Force, the flystasjon the establishment under the name Rygge uses, inter alia, as a base of helicopters.

Transport links

Car: The airport is located about 60 km south of Oslo on the European road 6

Bus: Rygge -express connects the airport after Ryanair and Norwegianflüge with Oslo, also bus routes to Fredrikstad, Moss and into the inner Østfold.

Train: Hourly keep the trains Halden - Oslo on the same breakpoint near the airport. From the airport there is a free shuttle bus.

History

The first military airfield Rygge was 1942/43, by the occupying German troops built in about two kilometer distance to the airport today and used as a base of Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters and Junkers Ju 52/3m transporters.

After the Second World War, the Norwegian Air Force used the base for flight training with Fairchild PT -19 Cornell training aircraft.

In September 1954, the " main air station" ( Hovedflystasjon ) Rygge was opened on the present site and now houses several units of the Norwegian Air Force.

For the next nearly five decades remained Rygge home course of various combat aircraft types, some were here for up to three flying squadrons at the same time. Esters were users as of June 1955, the F- 84G of 332 Skvadron that were two years later replaced by F - 86F. With the 336th Skvadron came in 1958 another F -86 squadron added. This flew the F -86 to 1966 while the " sister team" Rygge had left in 1961 to had been replaced by the 717 Skvadron, one equipped with RF -84F reconnaissance squadron.

The first F- 5A / B met in March 1965 at the 336th, and the 717th until three years later with the conversion began on the reconnaissance variant of RF -5A, the RF -84F but still continues operating until June 1970. The 332 squadron in 1969 to Rygge back. However, it was already disbanded four years later, a fate that befell the 717th in August 1979. The 336th took over some of the reconnaissance aircraft and flew them in parallel until the end of 1984 on. This season and the last Norwegian F -5 were made ​​in 2000 out of service.

The 332 Squadron, which was reactivated in 1980 as the F -16A / B unit in Rygge, was withdrawn in 2002 and 2003 Rygge was downgraded to the restructuring of the Norwegian armed forces to a normal "air station ".

In addition to the fighter jets was in Rygge since 1976 in parallel with a helicopter squadron, the 720th Skvadron that is still stationed in Rygge.

In the autumn of 1997 began representatives of regional business associations, think about the civil use of the airport. Two years later, the operating company Rygge sivile was founded with the goal of planning, construction and operation of an airport in Rygge lufthavn AS ( RSL). The goal is to operate a commercial airport has a positive effect on the population and the regional economy, has a focus on environmental and safety and a high level of effectiveness has. The basis for approving the project, a report was submitted in June 2002 and recommended that the civil construction. In November 2004, the Norwegian Air Force was given permission to use Rygge Flystasjon for civilian air traffic.

Construction of the new terminal building was begun by the RSL in May 2006, the construction costs amounted to NOK 1 billion. On 8 October 2007, the airport was opened, the first civilian flight took place on 17 October 2007 to Gran Canaria.

Military use

The Rygge is flystasjon used at the time (2013 ) of two flying squadrons of the 137th Squadron:

  • 717 Skvadron, equipped with Dassault Falcon 20 C-5/20ECM, the squadron was reactivated in September 1995 in Rygge
  • 720 Skvadron, since 1989 equipped Bell 412SP transport helicopters

Additionally, it contains a Westland "Sea King" Mk.43B is stationed rescue helicopter of the 330th squadron. The military base is also home to several non-flying organizations, this includes the headquarters of the Luftforsvaret.

Civil use

Operator

The shareholders of the operating company Rygge sivile lufthavn AS are the Thon Holding AS (40 %), the Orkla Eiendom AS ( 40%), the Østfold Energi AS (15%) and the province Østfold ( 5%). The new terminal is run by the RSL independently. For operations and the operation of the airport, the Norwegian Air Force is responsible. The airport is next to the airports in Notodden, Sandefjord, skiing and Stord one of the few privately operated airports.

Airlines

The airport has national and international connections with the low cost airlines Ryanair and Norwegian, which on its first base in Norway stationed three aircraft on 30 March 2010. Norwegian announced in August 2011 to close their base at the airport Moss - Rygge and until January 2012 to cease all connections.

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