Sodankylä Airfield | |
Nativename: | Finnish: Sodankylän lentokenttä |
Iata: | SOT |
Icao: | EFSO |
Operator: | Municipality of Sodankylä |
Location: | Sodankylä, Finland |
Elevation-F: | 602 |
Elevation-M: | 183 |
Coordinates: | 67.3967°N 26.6181°W |
Pushpin Map: | Finland |
Pushpin Label: | EFSO |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 220 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Finland |
Metric-Rwy: | Y |
R1-Number: | 16/34 |
R1-Length-M: | 1500 |
R1-Surface: | asphalt |
Footnotes: | Source: VFR Finland[1] |
Sodankylä Airfield (Finnish: Sodankylän lentokenttä;) is an airfield in Sodankylä, Lapland, Finland, located 3km (02miles) south-east of Sodankylä municipal centre.
The airfield was originally built in the early 1940s, initially as a stopover airfield for the flights to Petsamo. A 11000NaN0 gravel runway was built in 1971. The asphalt pavement and terminal building were completed in 1989, and there were scheduled flights in 1989–1996. There were some plans to build a new, longer runway to enable direct charter flights in the early 2000s. Sodankylä Airport was turned to an uncontrolled airfield on July 1, 2010. Today the airfield serves as a general aviation airfield.