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Bíldudalur Airport is a small public airfield in the Westfjords of Iceland, serving the village of Bíldudalur along with nearby Tálknafjörður and Patreksfjörður. Set among steep fjord terrain, it is best known among pilots for its demanding northerly approach, which requires clearing a mountain pass close to the runway before a steep descent and turn onto final.
Bíldudalur Airport is a public aerodrome operated by Isavia, serving the village of Bíldudalur and the wider communities of Tálknafjörður and Patreksfjörður in Iceland's Westfjords. It is a modest but operationally interesting field for visiting pilots, chiefly because of the terrain-constrained approach it demands rather than for any scale of traffic.
The airport lies in the Westfjords region of north-west Iceland, with its runway around 5 kilometres south-southeast of Bíldudalur village. The surrounding terrain is mountainous and fjord-bound, and Reykjavik ACC provides area control service in this part of Icelandic airspace.
The airport has a single physical runway, 04/22, of 3060 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS available at the field.
Reykjavik ACC can be contacted on 119.7 MHz, and aerodrome flight information service (AFIS) traffic uses 119.1 MHz, callsign INFO.
Approaches flown in the northern direction, which are the more common arrival, require crossing a mountain pass approximately 450 metres high only about 9 kilometres from the runway. This is followed by a fairly steep descent and a 40-degree turn shortly before landing, making a careful assessment of terrain, weather and aircraft performance essential before committing to this approach.
The village of Bíldudalur itself, lying some 5 kilometres north-northwest of the runway along the fjord, is the principal visual reference for locating the airfield, with the mountain pass south-east of the field forming a key feature on the northerly approach.
Bíldudalur Airport was built to provide air access to the isolated Bíldudalur community and its neighbouring settlements of Tálknafjörður and Patreksfjörður in the Westfjords, a region where mountainous terrain makes road travel slow and often difficult in winter.
Norlandair operates scheduled flights between Bíldudalur and Reykjavik Airport once daily except Saturdays. The airport's service hours are between 08:45 and 16:00 on weekdays and between 10:45 and 14:00 on Sundays.
