Bodø Airport (IATA: BOO, ICAO: ENBO) (Norwegian: Bodø lufthavn) is a main civilian airport in Bodø, Norway. It is located next to the military air force base Bodø Main Air Station, just south of the city centre, on the westernmost tip of the peninsula Bodø lies on. The airport has a single concrete, 3.394 m x 45 m runway which runs in a roughly east-west direction. In addition to jet operations to major domestic destinations, the airport serves a...
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Bodø Airport (IATA: BOO, ICAO: ENBO) (Norwegian: Bodø lufthavn) is a main civilian airport in Bodø, Norway. It is located next to the military air force base Bodø Main Air Station, just south of the city centre, on the westernmost tip of the peninsula Bodø lies on. The airport has a single concrete, 3.394 m x 45 m runway which runs in a roughly east-west direction. In addition to jet operations to major domestic destinations, the airport serves as a hub for regional airline flights to Helgeland, Lofoten and Vesterålen. It served 1,430,000 passengers in 2006.
Postal flights to Bodø started in 1921, and before 1940 Bodø was served with sea planes from Widerøe.
The first runway at Bodø Airport was build during World War II by British troops, after Germany had invaded Southern Norway. On May 26, 1940 three British Gloster Gladiators landed and made out the first airborne defence for the city. The area was swampland, and the first makeshift runway consisted of wooden planks floating on the...
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