Oslo Airport, Fornebu

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Oslo Airport, Fornebu (Norwegian: Oslo lufthavn, Fornebu ) was until closing on 8 October 1998, the main airport for Oslo and Norway, respectively. He lay in the municipality of Bærum, and was opened on 1 June 1939. The operation of Fornebu was set on 8 October 1998, when the new Oslo-Gardermoen airport was opened. The investment area for seaplanes remained on the closure also still in operation today.

History

Since the beginning of commercial aviation landed conventional aircraft to Oslo at the airfield in Kjeller and seaplanes on Gressholmen, which represented an unfavorable solution for the Oslo region. The City of Oslo decided, therefore, in the late 1920s, together with the Norwegian Ministry of Defence to build a new airport. They chose Fornebu, a peninsula in the municipality ( commune ) Bærum, as a suitable location. The city of Oslo bought the ground and began construction.

When the airport on June 1, opened in 1939, he had three take-off and landing runways (two with lengths of 800 m and a length of 700 m), as well as a facility for seaplanes. The airport consisted of numerous buildings, including an administration building, a hangar, a control tower and a terminal building. The first aircraft to land at Fornebu, was a Douglas DC-2 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

In the operation Weserübung the Wehrmacht conquered from the April 9, 1940 Denmark and Norway. Airborne troops of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe landed. Two aircraft ( Ju 52) with a total of 18 paratroopers and 50 infantrymen on board took a Fornebu. During the Second World War, the German Wehrmacht advanced the occupier of the airport to more buildings and an additional north / south start and runway with a length of 1200 meters. After the war, the city of Oslo on suitable airport to the Norwegian government under the proviso that the city get back the base areas, if the airport would be closed once. In 1962, an east -west airstrip still was taken with a length of 2370 m in 1964 and operating a new terminal building was opened, which was extended in the late 1960s by three gates.

Capacity problems in the 1980s and 90s

The Fornebu Airport was dimensioned in its final design stage, for a volume of two million passengers per year. In 1996, the annual volume already reached the ten million mark, as well as the operating capacity was reached in the morning and in the afternoon. There was only one usable airstrip and no expansion options, as the terrain is limited to three and a half pages of the Oslo fjord. The noise caused problems in the nearby residential areas and despite the proximity to the center of Oslo (about seven kilometers ), there was no efficient public transportation. The only reasonable solution was therefore necessary to build a new airport.

After two decades of discussion about a "new main airfield " and after testing of sites such as Rygge or Hurum Parliament decided in 1990 to build the new airport in place of an existing field as Oslo - Gardermoen Airport, 56 km north of Oslo. On 8 October 1998 started the last plane of Fornebu and the following night moved the entire airport operations to the new location.

Following the closure

After closure of the airport, a major project was launched to establish a research facility for companies in the information technology and telecommunications, as the largest company Telenor moved on. In addition to a large building complex, the Football Banquet Hall Telenor Arena, in the Euro Vision Song Contest 2010 was held.