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Banak Airport
Airport Directory » Norway » Lakselv » Banak AirportAirport information for Banak AirportCountry: NorwayLocation: Lakselv Coordinates: 70.03.00N / 024.59.00E IATA Code: LKL Timezone: GMT +1 Direct flights form Banak Airport Direct flights to Banak Airport Find connecting flights to Banak Airport Find connecting flights from Banak Airport |
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Lakselv Airport, Banak (IATA: LKL, ICAO: ENNA) (Norwegian: Lakselv lufthavn, Banak) is turn up 1,5 kilometer from the city of Lakselv in the municipality of Porsanger in Finnmark county, Norway. Apart from Lakselv, the airport also assists Karasjok, some 74 kilometre to the southward, with fit airport manager 6 solar days a hebdomad. It is marketed under the name North Cape Airport (even though North Cape is 180 kilometer off, and the about airport in fact is Honningsvåg Airport, Valan, only 35 kilometre from North Cape). Lakselv Airport, Banak is owned and functioned by Avinor. In 2005 the airport had 52 981 riders.
The airport has daily connexions to Tromsø, Kirkenes and Alta, functioned by Widerøe, as good as international charter voyages during the summertime season. During the summertime Scandinavian Airlines functions a seasonal connexion to Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. It is the northernmost airport in European mainland which has a landing track long enough for jet plane such as Boeing 737. Longyearbyen, Svalbard is more northern with a long landing track, and there are 4 more airports further northward in Norway with short landing track usable for little short-range propellor aircraft.
In concurrence with the airport is Station Group Banak, functioned by the Royal Norwegian Air Force.
History
Banak 1st saw use as an airport in 1938, when the armed forces build a little crushed rock field diagonally on currently's landing track, approximately 11/29. The original landing track is still part seeable in area with small botany.
During World War II the German busying squeezes spread out the airport, with depots, shops, infirmaries in addition to defense places. The constructions and installing were destruct during the German pull away in 1944.
After the conflict the airport was taken over by the Air Force, but the landing track's wooden surface was cannbalised because of stuff deficit during the 1st reconstruction period of time in Finnmark. By 1951 the landing track was unusable, and the actions stopped temporarily .
Lakselv Airport opened once again in 1963 alongside with the other 2 primary airports in Finnmark, Alta Airport and Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen. The airport was financed through NATO and in addition to a civilian airport was host to a armed forces air station. The airport has since been spread out several clips to run across armed forces and civilian demands.
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