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Stockholm Skavsta Airport (ESKN) lies near Nyköping in Södermanland County, some 100 km southwest of central Stockholm, and is one of the region's low-cost and cargo gateways. Built on a former military airfield, it now offers a long ILS-equipped main runway and a shorter crosswind runway, making it a straightforward destination for simulator pilots flying into the Stockholm area from the south. It remains an active civil aerodrome under tower control, with continuing air traffic and instrument approach facilities.
Stockholm Skavsta Airport, known locally simply as Skavsta, serves the Stockholm area from a location well outside Stockholm County itself, near the town of Nyköping. Historically a Swedish Air Force base, it was converted to civilian use in the 1980s and later became one of Sweden's principal low-cost carrier and cargo airports. For a simulator pilot it offers a long, ILS-served main runway alongside a shorter secondary runway, giving a mix of airliner-scale approaches and general aviation circuit work.
Skavsta lies in Nyköping Municipality, Sweden, about 5 km northwest of Nyköping and roughly 100 km southwest of Stockholm. It sits at coordinates 58.7886N 16.9036E at an elevation of 125 ft. The field is served by Östgöta Approach, indicating it operates within controlled airspace associated with that approach sector, with its own tower providing aerodrome control.
Skavsta has two physical runways. The main runway, 08/26, is a hard-surfaced, lit strip equipped with an ILS, recorded at 9040 ft for runway 08 and 9453 ft for runway 26. The secondary runway, 16/34, is a hard-surfaced, lit runway of 6676 ft in each direction, without an ILS.
Traffic is worked by Östgöta Approach on 132.955 MHz. Aerodrome information is broadcast on the ATIS frequency 126.28 MHz. Aerodrome control is provided by Skavsta Tower on 127.705 MHz. The main runway, 08/26, is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches.
The airfield was established between 1940 and 1941 as part of the Nyköping garrison, originally named Nyköping-Oxelösund Airport, and was used chiefly by Södermanland Wing (F11) of the Swedish Air Force until the wing was decommissioned on 30 June 1980, with some military activity continuing in the area until 1985. Following an agreement between the Swedish state and Nyköping Municipality in November 1983, the airport was inaugurated as a civil airfield in September 1984, with a terminal building opening in 1987. In 1988 it was renamed Stockholm Skavsta Airport to link it commercially with Stockholm. Charter operations began in 1995, and in June 1997 Ryanair launched its first service from Skavsta to London Stansted, marking the arrival of low-cost carriers in the Swedish market. Ryanair established a Scandinavian base at the airport in April 2003, and Wizz Air began operations there in July 2004. Ownership passed through TBI Limited, the Spanish ACDL group, Canadian pension fund OMERS Strategic Investments, and from August 2018 the French operator VINCI Airports, which took a 90.1 percent stake. Passenger numbers peaked in 2011 at over 2.5 million. The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected the airport, and in 2021 Ryanair relocated all its routes to Stockholm Arlanda, leaving Skavsta entirely by the end of October 2021, contributing to a substantial drop in passenger traffic in the years that followed.
Skavsta continues to operate as a licensed civil airport handling scheduled and charter passenger services as well as cargo traffic, with a control tower and ILS-equipped main runway supporting instrument approaches. The airport has invested in ILS Category IIIB capability, intended to allow landings in conditions of very low visibility.
