Kjeller Airport

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Kjeller Airport
IATA: none – ICAO: ENKJ
Summary
Airport type		Public / Military
Operator		Royal Norwegian Air Force, Kjeller Aero Senter
Location		Kjeller, Norway
Elevation AMSL		354 ft / 108 m
Coordinates		59°58′09″N 011°02′09″E / 59.96917, 11.03583
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
12/30	1,357	4,452	Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1]

Kjeller Airport (ICAO: ENKJ) is located in Kjeller, Norway.

Kjeller is a military airport near Lillestrøm, Norway, with facilities for carrying out maintenance for aircraft belonging to the Royal Norwegian Air Force. It is also worth mentioning that Kjeller is Norway's first airport, built in 1912. Kjeller has a small civil part, where recreational pilots take-off and land. The largest plane to have landed at Kjeller is a Boeing 737 and it is frequently used by C-130 Hercules transports. Cancer medicines get flown in to Kjeller for Ullevaal Hospital and Rikshospitalet; in nearby Oslo. The airport is also open for general aviation, and there is a small aircraft museum. Aviation has a long history at Kjeller: In the first part of the 20th century there was a small aircraft factory building military planes.

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Flydagen på Kjeller 2 Organizations operating at Kjeller 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Events

[edit] Flydagen på Kjeller

An annual airshow is organized at the airport, where entrance is free-of-charge.

[edit] Organizations operating at Kjeller

• Nedre Romerike Flyklubb
• Oslo Flyveklubb
• Kjeller Flyhistoriske Forening
• Aeromech
• HelikopterDrift
• Hovet Avionics
• Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 573 Norway

[edit] References

1. ^ Airport information for ENKJ at World Aero Data. Source: DAFIF.

[edit] External links

• Kjeller Aero Senter (General Aviation airport authority)
• Unofficial weather information and webcam from the AFIS tower
• Hybrid map and satellite image