Skövde Airport is an airport located in

Skövde Skövde () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland, Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central Southern Sweden. Skövde is situated some 150 ...

and was inaugurated in 1989. The airport was built as Skövde's replacement for the failed project for a joint airfield, Skarlanda, for

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near

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outside

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. Lidköping-Hovby Airport and Falköping Airport were also built after Skarlanda was not implemented.

History

The runways were built by

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and Skövde Airport AB had a usage agreement of 25 years. Skövde Municipality replaced the airline as a contractual partner in 1993 and redeemed the runways early in 2012. There is currently no regular commercial flight from Skövde Airport. Previously, the airline Swedair, Flying Enterprise between 1994 and 1999 and Skyways Regional operated from

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to Skövde. Skyways Regional discontinued the last service to Arlanda in 2002. Previously,

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was also served from Skövde. Nowadays, the airport is used for, among other things, private flights, ambulance flights and taxi flights. It was to a significant extent the train that competed with the flight.

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was inaugurated in 1990, one year after the airport, and since 1995 (when the Grödinge line was opened) takes two hours to Stockholm. At 13 years old, Skövde Airport has the shortest time in Sweden from new construction to the closure of scheduled flights. The current airport is located at Knistad and replaced an older airport built in 1938 at Aspelund which has become an industrial area. On 8-9 May 2015 and 1 May 2016, Skövde Airport hosted a round of the

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and RallyX, when, among other things, a new runway was built at the airport at approximately 2100 meters.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Skovde Airport Airports in Sweden Skövde Buildings and structures in Västra Götaland County 1989 establishments in Sweden Airports established in 1989