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Örebro Airport is a public airfield located some 10 kilometres southwest of Örebro in central Sweden, serving as both a charter passenger gateway and one of the country's busiest cargo airports. Opened in 1979, it offers a long ILS-equipped main runway alongside a shorter grass strip, making it a useful and interesting stop for simulator pilots exploring Swedish regional aviation.
Örebro Airport (ICAO: ESOE, IATA: ORB) is a public aerodrome operated by Örebro Läns Flygplats AB, situated close to the city of Örebro in Örebro County, Sweden. It combines scheduled and seasonal charter passenger services with a significant cargo operation, being ranked as Sweden's fourth-largest freight airport, and it is also designated as one of the country's contingency airports, required to remain open around the clock to receive air ambulances, firefighting aircraft and Coast Guard aircraft. For a simulator pilot, the field offers a mix of a substantial hard-surfaced, ILS-served runway and a shorter grass strip, giving some variety in approach and circuit work.
The airport lies approximately 10 kilometres southwest of the city of Örebro, in Örebro County, Sweden. It is strategically positioned between the E18 and E20 road corridors, within reach of both Oslo and Stockholm.
Örebro has two physical runways. The main runway, 01/19, is a hard-surfaced strip of 8,513 feet, lit and equipped with an ILS, capable of handling substantial passenger and cargo traffic. A secondary runway, 18/36, is a grass surface of 3,436 feet, also lit, offering an alternative for lighter traffic or crosswind operations.
The tower frequency is 120.275 MHz. The main runway (01/19) is equipped with an ILS, supporting instrument approaches in addition to visual operations.
Örebro Airport opened in 1979, following plans for its construction that had been under consideration since the 1950s. It has grown into Sweden's 23rd-largest passenger airport by traffic and its fourth-largest cargo airport. The field's contingency role means it is kept open continuously to support essential service flights such as air ambulances and firefighting aircraft. In 2010 it was used to dispatch Sweden's official aid shipment to Haiti following that year's earthquake. On 8 July 2021 a single-engine DHC-2 Beaver carrying eight skydivers and a pilot crashed shortly after takeoff from the airport, killing all nine on board.
Today Örebro Airport handles a mix of scheduled and seasonal charter passenger flights, with destinations in recent years including Helsinki, Linköping, and Mediterranean charter routes to Rhodes, Gran Canaria, Larnaca and Palma de Mallorca, alongside its substantial freight operations. The airport recorded around 80,694 passengers in 2023 and roughly 3,060 landings that year. Ground transport to and from the city centre includes a coach service timed around charter flight schedules and a nearby public bus stop.
