Førde Airport, Bringeland is located in the municipality of Gaular

Gaular

Gaular is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Sande...

 in Sogn og Fjordane

Sogn og Fjordane

is a county in Norway, bordering Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, Buskerud, and Hordaland. The county administration is in the town of Hermansverk in Leikanger municipality while the largest town is Førde....

 county, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The airport is at Bringelandsåsen, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of the end of the Dalsfjorden (Sunnfjord)

Dalsfjorden (Sunnfjord)

Dalsfjorden is a fjord in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located between the municipalities of Askvoll, Fjaler, and Gaular. The fjord is about long and it is generally about wide....

 at an elevation of 318 metres (1,043.3 ft) above sea level.

The airport is operated by Avinor

Avinor

Avinor AS is a state owned limited company in that operates most of the civil airports in Norway. The Norwegian state, via the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications controls 100 percent of the share capital. Avinor was created on 1 January 2003, by the privatization of the...

, and it is served by Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft from the regional airline Widerøe

Widerøe

Widerøe's Flyveselskap AS, trading as Widerøe, is a regional airline in Norway and part of the SAS Group. It operates a fleet of 34 Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft , serving 41 domestic and 6 international destinations...

, with flights to Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

 and Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

. The airport is situated approximately 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Førde and about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Sande

Sande, Sogn og Fjordane

Sande is the administrative centre of the municipality of Gaular in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located along the Gaula River, about from where the river meets the Dalsfjorden. The village of Sande has a population of 637.The Førde Airport, Bringeland is located about north of...

. Firda Billag runs the bus service connecting the airport with the small town of Førde

Førde

Førde is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative center is the town of Førde which in 2010 had 12,035 inhabitants. The historic village of Bruland is located just east of the town of Førde...

. The airport had 78,379 passengers in 2009.

History

Førde was one of the locations that got an airport during the construction of the Norwegian regional airport network during the 1970s. The first airport serving Førde was opened in 1971 and was located at Øyrane in the municipality of Førde

Førde

Førde is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative center is the town of Førde which in 2010 had 12,035 inhabitants. The historic village of Bruland is located just east of the town of Førde...

, in the middle of an industrial area. That airport was too small and so a new airport had to be built. A site was chosen just over the municipal border in Gaular

Gaular

Gaular is a municipality in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Sunnfjord. The administrative centre is the village of Sande...

The Bringeland airport opened on 30 August 1986.