Sodankylä Airfield Explained

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.

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  1. Web site: Sodankylä, Finland – EFAH . 28 July 2012 . 18 November 2010 . VFR Suomi / Finland . Finavia . Vantaa . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120421105142/https://ais.fi/ais/vfr/aerodromes/EFSO.html . 21 April 2012 .