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Þórshöfn Airport serves the small fishing town of Þórshöfn on the Langanes peninsula in remote northeast Iceland, with a single paved runway open to scheduled Twin Otter services. It is a modest domestic field with no instrument landing system, relying on Reykjavik Air Traffic Control and local flight information services rather than a control tower.
Þórshöfn Airport is a small domestic aerodrome serving the town of Þórshöfn in the far northeast of Iceland, on the Langanes peninsula. It is operated by Isavia and handles scheduled services flown with 19-seat Twin Otter aircraft, making it a straightforward but scenically remote destination for a simulator pilot exploring Iceland's northern coastline.
The airport lies on the Langanes peninsula in the Northeastern Region of Iceland, about 3 km north of the village of Þórshöfn. Air traffic in the area is worked by Reykjavik Area Control, with local aerodrome flight information available on the ground frequency; there is no control tower at the field itself.
Þórshöfn has a single physical runway, 01/19, of 3915 ft with a hard surface, and it is lit for night or low-light operations. There is no ILS or other instrument approach aid.
Pilots should contact Reykjavik ACC on 119.7 MHz for area traffic services, and use 118.1 MHz for aerodrome flight information (callsign INFO) when operating in the vicinity of Þórshöfn. There is no instrument landing system at the field, so arrivals and departures are flown visually.
The airport sits on the Langanes peninsula, roughly 3 km north of the town of Þórshöfn, which itself lies on the coast and makes a clear visual reference when approaching from the south. The surrounding terrain is low-lying coastal peninsula, with the sea providing an unmistakable landmark on most approach tracks.
The current Þórshöfn Airport replaced an earlier airfield of the same name, coded BITH, which stood about 4.8 km to the northeast near Sauðanes and had a shorter gravel runway that has since closed. The original field saw at least one notable accident: in July 1969 a United States Navy Douglas R4D-6 (Bu 150187), flown by the Executive Officer of NAS Keflavik, was damaged beyond economic repair after crosswinds and the unimproved runway surface led to a loss of control on landing (one account instead describes the aircraft swinging off the runway on takeoff). The wreck of this DC-3 remains on private land nearby and is now used as a shelter for sheep and horses. The airport has a very small terminal building, reflecting its role as a low-traffic domestic field where security screening is not required for internal Icelandic flights.
Þórshöfn Airport continues to serve as a domestic gateway for the town, with Norlandair operating scheduled flights connecting it to Akureyri and Vopnafjörður using small Twin Otter aircraft. As a domestic Icelandic airport, passengers do not pass through security screening, and the terminal facilities remain modest, sized to match the light traffic the field handles.
