Stokmarknes Airport (Norwegian: Stokmarknes lufthavn; IATA: SKN, ICAO: ENSK) is an airport in Hadsel Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the island of Langøya, about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northeast of the town of Stokmarknes and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the town of Sortland. Widerøe is the only approved scheduled air carrier to operate from the airport, using Canadian-built De Havilland Canada Dash 8 STOL (short take-off and landing) aircraft. Other frequent traffic includes ambulance flights (MEDEVAC) using Beechcraft Super King Airs operated by Babcock Scandinavian Air Ambulance.

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Stokmarknes Airport Stokmarknes lufthavn
IATA: SKN ICAO: ENSK
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Avinor
Serves	Stokmarknes and Sortland
Location	Skagen
Elevation AMSL	13 ft / 4 m
Coordinates	68°34′51″N 15°01′34″E
Website	avinor.no
Map
SKN Show map of Nordland SKN Show map of Norway
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 08/26 3,015 919 Asphalt
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 93,782 Aircraft movements 6,302 Cargo (tonnes) N/A
Source: [1][2]

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The airport opened 1 July 1972 as part of a government program of building a series of small airports along the coast. This was a major success and an important step for the population in the area (Vesterålen archipelago), who now could travel to the bigger cities of Norway and the rest of the world in one day, not weeks. Currently owned and operated by Avinor, the airport was managed by the Hadsel municipality for the first 20 years.^[3]

Work on extending RESA and improving the strip around the runway was completed in 2006.^[3] In March 2015, Avinor decided to postpone plans for extending the runway to 1199 meters. ^[5]