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Ørland Airport (ENOL) is a joint civil/military aerodrome on the Fosen peninsula in Trøndelag, Norway, sharing its single long runway with the Royal Norwegian Air Force's Ørland Main Air Station. Sitting just northwest of the town of Brekstad, it is the principal air link for the Fosen district and offers a sim pilot the unusual combination of a busy military base with a small municipal terminal.
Ørland Airport is the civilian sector of Ørland Main Air Station, a joint public and military airfield located at Brekstad in Ørland Municipality, Trøndelag county, Norway. The runway, air traffic control and rescue services are all operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force, while the civilian terminal and passenger operations are run by Ørland Municipality. For a simulator pilot the field is notable for its very long single runway, its role as the main air station for the RNoAF's fighter operations in central Norway, and its position on a peninsula reached from Trondheim by car ferry.
The airport lies 1.5 km (0.8 NM) northwest of the town of Brekstad, on the Fosen peninsula in Trøndelag county. It is close enough to the city of Trondheim to have been considered as a secondary airport for that city, although a car ferry is required to reach it from Trondheim. As a joint military/civil aerodrome with approach, arrival and tower frequencies published, the field operates within controlled airspace associated with the air station.
Ørland has a single physical runway, 15/33, orientated north-northwest to south-southeast. It is a hard-surfaced runway approximately 9,333 ft in length, lit for night operations. There is no ILS at the field.
Radio services at Ørland comprise Approach on 118.25 MHz, Arrival on 126.2 MHz, and Tower on 118.7 MHz. There is no ILS approach published for the field.
The town of Brekstad, immediately southeast of the airfield, is the principal visual landmark for locating the field, with the airport situated about 1.5 km to its northwest on the Fosen peninsula. The car ferry crossing used to reach the area from Trondheim can also serve as a useful orientation feature when approaching from the south.
Planning for an airfield at Ørland began in January 1941 under German occupation, with construction of an initial 1,600 by 120 metre wooden runway completed by late 1941 and later extended to 2,000 metres. A second, concrete runway of 1,600 by 50 metres was begun in 1942 and not finished until mid-1944; this became part of the northern end of today's runway. A third runway was only partially levelled by the end of the war. The Royal Air Force took over the airfield within days of the German surrender in 1945, before the Royal Norwegian Air Force formally assumed control on 2 November 1945. Civilian traffic began modestly in 1949 with a short-lived Trøndelag Flyveselskap route to Trondheim using a three-seat Auster. Norway's acquisition of the F-84 Thunderjet through the Marshall Plan prompted a major runway upgrade, with the main runway extended to 2,700 by 50 metres between April and June 1952, followed by a parallel runway completed that November; the RNoAF's 332 Squadron began operating from the field on 31 May 1954. Scheduled civilian services developed slowly over subsequent decades, including a Braathens SAFE summer service to Trondheim's Værnes airport from 1967 and a Widerøe route reopened in 1971, supported from 1978 by a new passenger terminal. Strict military restrictions on civilian traffic were lifted in 1985 when the airport gained national airport status, prompting expansion of the civilian apron. Various airlines including Norving and Valdresfly operated short-lived services to Værnes through the late 1980s and 1990s.
Ørland remains a joint public and military airfield: the runway, air traffic control and rescue services are operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force, while the civilian terminal, with capacity for 50 simultaneous passengers, is operated by Ørland Municipality and was renovated in 2007 after being built in 1978. Civilian air service is provided by Air Norway, operated by North Flying, with a daily round trip to Oslo and a weekly service to Aalborg. The airport serves as the main air link for the Fosen district.
