Storuman Airport is an airport about 35 km east of Storuman

Storuman

Storuman is a locality and the seat of Storuman Municipality in Västerbotten County, Sweden with 2,255 inhabitants in 2005.- References :...

, Sweden

Sweden

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, in the small village of Gunnarn.

It was built as a military airbase (called Gunnarn), hence the relatively long runway. Scheduled passenger traffic began in 1993. The airport had 12,753 passengers in 2006.

The government and the relevant authority decided not to support the traffic financially from autumn 2008. The reason is that the Vilhelmina Airport is located only 75 km from Storuman centre. Air traffic cannot continue without public financial support. The municipality thought it was important to have its own airport so it financed an operator itself from 2009.

On 18 January 2010, Storuman Municipality

Storuman Municipality

Storuman Municipality is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Storuman.The parish Stensele was created as late as 1822. It was, together with the parish Tärna, made into a municipality in 1863. In 1903 Tärna was detached to form a municipality of its own...

 decided to stop supporting the air traffic and to end the agreement with Avion Express

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. Traffic continued with only one flight per day until June 2010 when all scheduled traffic ended.