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Vopnafjörður Airport is a small domestic airfield in the Eastern Region of Iceland, serving the fishing village of Vopnafjörður from a site beside the River Hofsá at the head of the fjord. It offers a single hard-surfaced runway and handles limited scheduled traffic linking the area to Akureyri, making it a modest but useful stop for VFR pilots exploring Iceland's north-east coast.
Vopnafjörður Airport is a public airfield operated by Isavia, serving the village of Vopnafjörður in the Austurland (Eastern) region of Iceland. It is a modest domestic field with a single runway, used primarily for scheduled air services connecting the remote fjord community to the wider Icelandic network, and is of interest to visiting VFR pilots for its dramatic fjord and river setting.
The airfield lies on the banks of the River Hofsá at the inner end of Vopnafjörður fjord, in north-east Iceland, about 4 kilometres from Vopnafjörður village. Its coordinates are 65.7206N, 14.8506W. No specific controlled airspace detail is given in available sources, so pilots should refer to current Icelandic AIP charts for the surrounding airspace classification when planning a flight.
The field has a single physical runway, 04/22, oriented north-east/south-west. It measures 2,911 feet in length, has a hard surface, and is lit. There is no ILS approach available at the field.
No communications frequencies are published for Vopnafjörður Airport, and it appears to operate without an assigned radio callsign or air-ground service on record. There is no instrument landing system or other published navaid associated with the field, so arrivals and departures should be planned on a visual basis with reference to current Icelandic aeronautical charts.
The airfield sits at the inner end of Vopnafjörður fjord on the banks of the River Hofsá, roughly 4 kilometres inland from Vopnafjörður village, which itself lies on the fjord's shoreline. The river and the shape of the fjord provide the principal visual references for locating and approaching the field from the air.
Vopnafjörður Airport is operated by Isavia and continues to support limited scheduled air services. Norlandair operates flights connecting the field to Akureyri, with services also linking to Þórshöfn, and scheduled flights to and from Akureyri have operated up to five days a week. The airfield remains a small domestic facility supporting the local community rather than a base for flying clubs or training operations.
