Honningsvåg Airport, Valan is located at Valan

Valan, Norway

Valan is a coastal village in Magerøya, Finnmark in far northern Norway. It is served by Honningsvåg Airport, Valan, located to the northeast of the village....

, 4.5 km (4,500,000,000,000 nm) north of the city centre of Honningsvåg

Honningsvåg

at 70° 58' N, in Nordkapp municipality, claims to be the northernmost city in Norway and even in the world, although the title is disputed by Hammerfest, Norway; Barrow, Alaska; and Longyearbyen, Svalbard...

, in Nordkapp

Nordkapp

Nordkapp is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Honningsvåg.Nordkapp was separated from Porsanger on 1 July 1861...

 (North Cape) municipality in Finnmark

Finnmark

or Finnmárku is a county in the extreme northeast of Norway. By land it borders Troms county to the west, Finland to the south and Russia to the east, and by water, the Norwegian Sea to the northwest, and the Barents Sea to the north and northeast.The county was formerly known as Finmarkens...

, 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...

. It is owned and 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...

 AS.

The airport serves Honningsvåg, Nordvågen

Nordvågen

Nordvågen is a small village in the municipality of Nordkapp, Norway. Its population is 450....

, Kamøyvær

Kamøyvær

Kamøyvær is a fishing village in Nordkapp, Finnmark. The town lies in Kamøyfjorden on the east side of Magerøya, around 10 km north-west of Honningsvåg. There are around 70 inhabitants....

, Gjesvær, and Skarsvåg

Skarsvåg

Skarsvåg is a village in Finnmark county in northern Norway, with approximately 60 inhabitants. It is the northernmost settlement on Magerøya, and claims the distinction of being the world's northernmost fishing village. It is located 14 km from the North Cape.-External links:**...

. It is also the nearest airport to North Cape

North Cape, Norway

North Cape is a cape on the island of Magerøya in Northern Norway, in the municipality of Nordkapp. Its 307 m high, steep cliff is often referred to as the northernmost point of Europe, located at , 2102.3 km from the North Pole. However, the neighbouring point Knivskjellodden is actually...

, located 35 kilometres (21.7 mi) away. The airport is connected to Honningsvåg by European route E69

European route E69

European route E 69 is an E-road between Olderfjord and North Cape in northern Norway. The road is long. It contains five tunnels, totalling...

. It opened in 1977 and it served passengers in 2009.

Scheduled services are operated by SAS Group

SAS Group

Scandinavian Airlines System Aktiebolag , trading as SAS Group and SAS AB, is a holding company based in Solna, Sweden. It is the parent company of the airlines Scandinavian Airlines, Blue1 and Widerøe, and the aviation services companies SAS Business Opportunities, SAS Cargo Group, SAS Ground...

 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...

 which operate Dash 8 aircraft as part of the regional network in Northern Norway on public service obligation

Public Service Obligation

In transport, public service obligation or PSO is an arrangement in which a governing body or other authority offers an auction for subsidies, permit the winning company a monopoly to operate a specified service of public transport for a specified period of time for the given subsidy...

 contract with the Government of Norway. Widerøe connect their flights to Scandinavian Airlines.

Facilities

The airport resides at an elevation

Elevation

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

 of 42 feet (13 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway

Runway

According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...

 designated 08/26 with an asphalt

Asphalt

Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...

 surface measuring 880 by 30 m (2,887.1 by 98.4 ).

Airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

On October 29, 1990 a Twin Otter airplane operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force

Royal Norwegian Air Force

The Royal Norwegian Air Force is the air force of Norway. It was established as a separate arm of the Norwegian armed forces on 10 November 1944. The RNoAF's peace force is approximately 1,430 employees . 600 personnel also serve their draft period in the RNoAF...

crashed at Honningsvåg due to turbulence and three people were killed.