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Hoeybuktmoen Airport
Airport Directory » Norway » Kirkenes » Hoeybuktmoen AirportAirport information for Hoeybuktmoen AirportCountry: NorwayLocation: Kirkenes Coordinates: 69.43.00N / 029.54.00E IATA Code: KKN Timezone: GMT +1 Direct flights form Hoeybuktmoen Airport Direct flights to Hoeybuktmoen Airport Find connecting flights to Hoeybuktmoen Airport Find connecting flights from Hoeybuktmoen Airport |
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Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen (IATA: KKN, ICAO: ENKR) (Norwegian: Kirkenes lufthavn, Høybuktmoen) is the airport assisting Kirkenes in eastern Finnmark, Norway. Like most other Norwegian airports, KKN is functioned by Avinor. Kirkenes is a primary airport, with a long landing track, and capable of assisting jet plane planes, and has direct voyages to Oslo. It also assists as a regional hub for Widerøe who offer voyages to numerous cities (with only short landing track) in Eastern Finnmark from the airport. There is 1 international voyage to Murmansk functioning 3 clips a hebdomad (). The voyage from Murmansk gets more than 1 60 minute earlier than it goes away, because of the time zone difference.
The airport's landing track, amounted 06/24, is 2,115 metres long, 45 m broad and paved with asphalt.
The depot construction is new, opened on May 4, 2006. This replaced the old depot construction from 1963 which missed installations for international reaches, and missed sufficient infinite for the traffic KKN was having. The airport assisted 220,838 riders in 2005. The place Høybuktmoen is due west of the city, at the ground of a peninsula. It is linked to the E6 main road. There are a few, but not many, jitneys assisting the airport.
History
In 1941, during World War II the Luftwaffe build 2 landing track, at 1000 and 1200 metres, near Kirkenes to execute assails on the Soviet Union. The landing track were destruct during the German pull away in 1945.
A new civilian airport was opened in 1963 at the same clip as the 2 other primary airports in Finnmark, Alta Airport and Lakselv Airport, Banak. The new airport had continued the length of the 2 landing track, but 1 of them is currently closed. Before this Widerøe had been doing sea aeroplane voyages to the town. But currently the airport acquired direct voyages to Oslo with Scandinavian Airlines. When the regional airport web opened in Finnmark in 1974 Kirkenes Airport got 1 of the hubs where local voyages is able to tie to Oslo voyages.
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