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Gävle Sandviken Airport (ESSK) serves the twin towns of Gävle and Sandviken in Gävleborg County, Sweden, offering a single long hard-surfaced runway suited to a range of general aviation and business traffic. It has no scheduled airline service and no instrument landing system, making it a straightforward VFR destination for visiting pilots.
Gävle Sandviken Airport, identified by the ICAO code ESSK and IATA code GVX, lies between the towns of Gävle and Sandviken in Gävleborg County, Sweden. It is a medium-sized aerodrome with a single hard-surfaced runway and an AFIS unit rather than full air traffic control, and it does not currently handle scheduled airline services, which makes it a quieter and more approachable field for visiting VFR traffic.
The airfield sits in Gävleborg County, positioned between the city of Gävle and the town of Sandviken. No further detail on the surrounding airspace classification or adjacent controlled zones is available from the sources at hand.
Gävle Sandviken has a single physical runway, 18/36, measuring 6536 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS installed on the field.
The airfield is served by an AFIS unit on 122.35 MHz. No published navaids or instrument approach procedures are noted, and the field has no ILS.
Gävle Sandviken Airport does not currently operate scheduled airline services, and traffic is handled through its AFIS unit on 122.35 MHz.
