Statens Luftfartsvæsen
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Statens Luftfartsvæsen (SLV) was the Danish government agency that oversaw all civil aviation
Civil aviation
Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-military aviation, both private and commercial. Most of the countries in the world are members of the International Civil Aviation Organization and work together to establish common standards and recommended practices...

 in Denmark
Denmark
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, including the autonomous area
Autonomous area
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s of Greenland
Greenland
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 and the Faroe Islands
Faroe Islands
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. It was known in English as the Civil Aviation Administration - Denmark (CAA-DK).

SLV was part of the Danish Ministry of Transport , based in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

. In addition to the regulation of civil aviation, it also operated the Bornholm Airport (Danish: Bornholms Lufthavn)

On 1 November 2010 the Danish Transport Authority and the Civil Aviation Administration - Denmark were merged to one administration. The name of the new administration is the Danish Transport Authority. The former SLV attends to the same tasks as before and remains at the same address.
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