Kjøllefjord Airport
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Kjøllefjord Airport Kjøllefjord flystripe |
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| Airport type | General aviation | ||||||||||
| Serves | Kjøllefjord | ||||||||||
| Location | Kjøllefjord, Lebesby, Norway | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 70°56′26″N 027°20′57″E / 70.94056°N 27.34917°ECoordinates: 70°56′26″N 027°20′57″E / 70.94056°N 27.34917°E | ||||||||||
| Website | Official site | ||||||||||
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Kjøllefjord Airport (Norwegian: Kjøllefjord flyplass) is a disused general aviation airport located at Kjøllefjord in Lebesby, Norway. It consisted of a 630-by-40-meter (2,070 by 130 ft) gravel runway and a simple terminal building. Plans for an airport in Kjøllefjord were first launched in the mid-1960s. The bush airline Norving was the main proponent as they intended to operate an air taxi and air ambulance service. Construction started in 1973 and the airport opened in 1974. The same year the close-by and larger Mehamn Airport opened and Kjøllefjord was only used sporadically. It became abandoned during the 1980s.
The first official proposals for an airport at Kjøllefjord were launched by a Finnmark County Municipality-appointed committee which in published a report in 1966. It recommended that fix regional airport be built in Finnmark, including both Mehamn and Kjøllefjord. As Finnmark had lowest priority on the state-financed construction of regional airports, Norving took initiative to start construction of smaller and simpler airfields in select communities, including Kjøllefjord. The airline therefore contacted the municipality in December 1969 and proposed that an airfield be built within a year, which it could operate with its Britten-Norman Islander aircraft. The airline also looked into two other locations on Nordkinnhalvøya, Mehman and Gamvik. When the Civil Aviation Administration started planning an airport for the area, it considered both Kjøllefjord, Mehamn and Gamvik as locations for the regional airport, deciding in the end to build at Mehamn.
Planning of the airport was started by A/L Kjøllefjord Flyplass in early 1973. Its first main task was to raise funding. In addition to donations from the community, Lebesby Municipality gave a NOK 1-million grant. Construction started in the summer of 1973, but an early winter forced completion to be delayed until early 1974. The airport opened the same year as the regional Mehamn Airport, located 30 kilometers (19 mi) away. The construction of Mehamn Airport included upgrading the road from Mehamn to Kjøllefjord and Gamvik to all-year standards. The airfield was occasionally used for ambulance flights, although this was normally only done when Mehamn Airport was closed because of fog.
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