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Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport, also known as Midlanda, lies on the delta of the Indalsälven river between Sundsvall, Timrå and Härnösand in Västernorrland County, Sweden. It offers a single long, ILS-equipped runway that makes it a straightforward destination for both training and cross-country flights in the simulator, with scheduled airline and cargo traffic alongside general aviation movements.
Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport, commonly referred to as Midlanda in reference to its central location within Sweden, serves the towns of Sundsvall, Timrå and Härnösand. It is operated by Midlanda Flygplats AB and owned jointly by the municipalities of Sundsvall and Timrå. For the simulator pilot it offers a substantial hard-surfaced runway with full ILS coverage, making it a useful and accessible field for both airline-style approaches and general aviation circuits in Norrland.
The airport sits roughly 21 km north of Sundsvall, about 8 km east of Timrå and some 32 km south of Härnösand, on land built up from sediment washed down the Indalsälven river. Pilots approaching from any of these towns will find the field in the flat delta terrain characteristic of this stretch of the Swedish coast.
The airport has a single physical runway, 16/34, orientated north-south. Runway 34 measures 6,434 ft and Runway 16 measures 6,403 ft; both are hard-surfaced, lit, and served by ILS, giving a long and well-equipped strip for instrument approaches in either direction.
Radio services include an ATIS on 127.4 MHz and a tower frequency on 129.55 MHz. Both runway directions are served by ILS, supporting instrument approaches to the field.
The airport was built on delta land at the mouth of the Indalsälven river, formed from sediment and flood debris deposited when the lake Ragundasjön drained catastrophically in June 1796. It was inaugurated on 11 September 1944 and was known as Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport until June 2013, when ownership passed from Swedavia to the municipalities of Sundsvall and Timrå. In 2016 it became host to Sweden's first remote-tower control centre, from which ground movements at Sundsvall itself and three other Swedish airports are monitored by camera rather than from a conventional tower. On 12 December 1999 a Piper PA-31 Navajo operating a taxi flight crashed shortly after takeoff in poor visibility, striking a hill and killing all eight people on board.
The field remains an active regional airport, historically Norrland's sixth-busiest and Sweden's fifteenth-busiest by traffic. Scandinavian Airlines has operated scheduled services to Stockholm-Arlanda, and TUI fly Nordic has run seasonal charter flights, including services to Gran Canaria. Cargo operators including PopulAir and West Air Sweden have also used the airport. Ground movements are controlled remotely, as part of Sweden's first remote-tower centre established here in 2016.
