Stavanger Airport
Airport in Rogaland county, Norway / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stavanger Airport (Norwegian: Stavanger lufthavn; IATA: SVG, ICAO: ENZV), commonly just known as Sola, is an international airport located in Rogaland county, Norway. The airport is located 6 NM (11 km; 6.9 mi) southwest of the centre of the city of Stavanger inside the neighboring municipality of Sola and it serves the Stavanger, Sola, Sandnes area as well as serves as a regional hub for southwest Norway.[1] It is Norway's third-busiest airport, with both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter traffic for the offshore North Sea oil installations. In addition, the Royal Norwegian Air Force operates Westland Sea King search and rescue helicopters from Sola Air Station.
This article needs to be updated. The reason given is: RNoAF no longer operates F-16s. (November 2023) |
Stavanger Airport Stavanger lufthavn | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public / Cargo / Military | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Avinor | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Stavanger, Norway Sandnes, Norway | ||||||||||||||
Location | Sola, Rogaland | ||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 9 m / 29 ft | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 58°52′36″N 005°38′16″E | ||||||||||||||
Website | avinor.no | ||||||||||||||
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The airport had 85,306 air movements and 4,501,368 passengers in 2015. [citation needed] Five airlines offered domestic flights to nine destinations while ten airlines offered international flights to 37 destinations. Two helicopter companies operate out of Sola. The busiest route is Sola–Oslo Gardermoen, which has about 28 daily flights. In the vicinity of the airport there is an aeronautical museum, Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola.