Nerlerit Inaat Airport is an airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 in the Sermersooq

Sermersooq

Sermersooq is a new municipality in Greenland, operational from 1 January 2009. It is home to Nuuk , the capital of Greenland, and is the most populous municipality in the country, with 21,232 inhabitants as of January 2010...

 municipality in eastern Greenland

Greenland

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

. It is located on Jameson Land

Jameson Land

Jameson Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland, bounded to the southwest by Scoresby Sund , to the northwest by the Greenlandic mainland, to the north by Scoresby Land, and to the east by Carlsberg Fjord, Liverpool Land and Hurry Inlet.-Geology:Jameson Land mainly consists of a tilted peneplain...

 and serves the town of Ittoqqortoormiit

Ittoqqortoormiit

Ittoqqortoormiit is a settlement in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland. Its population is 469 as of 2010.The Danish name Scoresbysund derives from the name of the Arctic explorer and whaler William Scoresby, who was the first to map the area in 1822. The Greenlandic name...

, approximately 40 km (24.9 mi) to the south-east. The airport can serve STOL

STOL

STOL is an acronym for short take-off and landing, a term used to describe aircraft with very short runway requirements.-Definitions:There is no one accepted definition of STOL and many different definitions have been used by different authorities and nations at various times and for a myriad of...

 aircraft. A Bell 222

Bell 222

The Bell 222 is a twin-engined light helicopter built by Bell Helicopter. The Bell 230 is an improved development with different engines and other minor changes. A cosmetically modified version of the 222 was used as the titular aircraft in the US television series Airwolf.-Development:In the late...

 helicopter of Air Greenland

Air Greenland

Air Greenland A/S is the flag carrier airline of Greenland, jointly owned by the government of Greenland, the SAS Group, and the government of Denmark...

 is permanently housed at the airport, linking it with Ittoqqortoormiit Heliport

Ittoqqortoormiit Heliport

Ittoqqortoormiit Heliport is a heliport in Ittoqqortoormiit, a village in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland.-Relocation:The Nerlerit Inaat Airport may be relocated to a new site on Liverpool Land closer to Ittoqqortoormiit, between the settlement and Unarteq cape to the south, thus...

. The helicopter also provides search and rescue

Search and rescue

Search and rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger.The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, mostly based upon terrain considerations...

 capabilities within the surrounding area, and can be chartered for transport.

Airlines and destinations

Relocation

The airport may be relocated to a new site on Liverpool Land

Liverpool Land

Liverpool Land is a peninsula in eastern Greenland.- Geography :The peninsula is bounded by Scoresby Sund in the south, Carlsberg Fjord in the northwest, Kangerterajiva in the southwest, the Greenland Sea in the east, and Jameson Land in the west...

 closer to Ittoqqortoormiit, between the settlement and Uunarteq cape to the south, thus eliminating the need for helicopter transfers.

Expeditions

The airport acts as stopping off point for a number of expeditions into Jameson Land and Northeast Greenland National Park

Northeast Greenland National Park

Northeast Greenland National Park is the largest national park in the world, with an area of , making the park larger than 163 countries. It is the only national park in Greenland, and the most northerly national park in the world, its most northerly point reaching slightly further than the most...

. Areas such as Renland have only just been visited, or have had no known visitors.

In summer 2004 the airport was the destination of an arctic trip by two German microlight pilots flying a Flight Design CT2K light aircraft.