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Åre Östersund Airport
Åre Östersund Airport , previously known as Östersund– Frösön Airport is located about 11 km (6.8 mi) west of Östersund, Sweden and 94 km (58 mi) east of Åre, Sweden. The airport opened in 1958. Åre Östersund airport is an international airport and served 465,196 passengers in 2015. Airlines and destinations The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Åre Östersund Airport: Statistics Ground transportation Bus Airport Coaches (''Stadsbussarna'') departs from the airport to down town Östersund. In the winter, Åre Flygtransfer departs in connection with every SAS and BRA flight, to and from Åre. Incidents and accidents * On 9 September 2007 an MD83 took off for a charter flight bound for Antalya, Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedavia
Swedavia AB is a Swedish state-owned company, which owns and operates ten of airports of Sweden, Sweden's busiest airports. It has its head office at the air traffic control tower of Stockholm-Arlanda Airport in Sigtuna Municipality near Stockholm. It was formed on 1 April 2010, when the Civil Aviation Administration (Sweden), Swedish Civil Aviation Administration was split up, and all commercial airport operation was transferred to Swedavia. Air navigation services continue as a state enterprise under the name LFV (Civil Aviation Administration). In 2010, the number of employees was about 2,600. Airports When the decision was made to form Swedavia, there were 16 nationally owned airports, but it was a part of the decision to transfer six of them to local owners and keep ten large airports. ''Region Värmland'' took over the operations of Karlstad Airport in 2010. In 2011, the operations for Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport was transferred to ''Region Skåne Nordväst'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groningen Airport Eelde
Groningen Airport Eelde is a minor international airport in the northeastern Netherlands. It is located near Eelde in the Province of Drenthe, south of the city of Groningen in the province of Groningen. In 2015, the airport handled 220,710 passengers. The airport is also the home base of the KLM Flight Academy, Noord Nederlandse Aero Club (NNAC) and General Enterprises. The airport started under the name "Hakenkampsveld" in 1928 and was officially opened in 1931. It was renamed "Luchthaven Eelde" in 1933. During World War II, the German military occupied the airport. Since 1958, there have been European destinations from the airport. Since 1988, the airport has been called Groningen Airport Eelde. History 1920s–1930s Groningen Airport Eelde's (GAE) history can be traced back to 1927, when Hayo Hindriks, an ex-alderman of the municipality Eelde, approached KLM (without informing the community's council). He knew that the KLM would be interested in an air link between Rott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dahlgren
Björn Thomas Robert Dahlgren (born 1 December 1979 in Skellefteå) is a Sweden, Swedish auto racing driver who currently competes for the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship. He previously competed in Australia and New Zealand for a single season in the V8 Supercars, V8 Supercars Championship for Garry Rogers Motorsport, as well as in the World Touring Car Championship, World and for Polestar Racing, accessed 27 May 2010 making him the longest-serving factory-supported Volvo Cars, Volvo driver. Career In 1998 he won the Nordic and Swedish Formula Ford Championships, before racing in Great Britain with Formula Ford. He won the Formula Ford Championship in 2001. He switched to British Formula 3 in 2002, finishing seventeenth in his first year. In his second year he finished ninth on points in 2003. Since 2004 he has c ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silhouette Racing Car
A silhouette racing car is a race car which, although bearing a superficial resemblance to a production model, differs mechanically in fundamental ways. The purpose of silhouette cars is to provide a manufacturer with a tangible link to their consumer product offerings so as to derive maximum marketing benefit from their investment in the sport. They also provide spectators with familiar, identifiable car models. The use of a special-purpose racing car chassis rather than modifying a production car offers a number of potential benefits for a competition, which vary in importance depending on the specific class. They may include: * Higher performance than is feasible with a production-based chassis. * Reduced barriers to entering a new make or model in a series (because they are not required to develop a complete car) * Cheaper and faster crash repairs * Improved safety Construction Silhouette cars often employ radically different chassis construction techniques, such as tubula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia
Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia is a Spec racing, one make racing championship held in Scandinavian countries with the majority of the races being in Sweden. The cars are currently Porsche 911 GT3#Motorsport, Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (Type 991.2) with 4.0 liters, flat-6 naturally aspirated engines that produce and 480 N·m. Inspired by the success of the Porsche Carrera Cup in France and Germany, the first race in the Scandinavian edition was held on 1 May 2004.Carrera Cup Tävlingen Since then it has been one of the support series for the Swedish Touring Car Championship. Among the competitors are former Speedway World Championship, Speedway World Champion Tony Rickardsson and Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland, Prince Carl Philip of Sweden. There has also been a number of famous guest drivers, like Mika Häkkinen, Kenny Bräck and Den ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandinavian Touring Car Championship
The Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC) is a touring car racing series based in Scandinavia. The series took over from the Danish Touringcar Championship The Danish Touringcar Championship (abbreviated as the DTC) was a touring car racing series in Denmark. The inaugural year for the DTC was 1999, after the huge success in Scandinavia of the British Touring Car Championship. For the first two years ... and Swedish Touring Car Championship, with its first season in 2011. The Scandinavian Touring Car Cup was awarded in 2010 to the driver with best results from selected races in the Danish and Swedish seasons. In 2013, the series merged with the rival TTA – Racing Elite League, which was formed as a result of the split in 2012. From the 2013 season onwards, the series would see a new format based upon the TTA series. After the change to the TCR ruleset 2017, The follow-up series is the TCR Scandinavia Touring Car Championship. For the 2019 season STCC changed promoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Statens Haverikommission
The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (, SHK), formerly the Swedish Accident Investigation Board in English, is a Swedish government agency tasked with investigating all types of serious civil or military accidents that can occur on land, on the sea or in the air. Incidents are also to be investigated if there was a serious risk of an accident. Its headquarters are in Stockholm. Directors General Directors General: *1978-07-01 – 1987-06-30: Göran Steen *1987-07-01 – 1997-05-29: Olof Forssberg *1997-05-30 – 1997-06-08: S-E Sigfridsson (acting) *1997-06-09 – 2002-01-06: Ann-Louise Eksborg *2002-01-07 – 2004-01-31: Lena Svenaeus *2004-02-01 – 2004-05-31: Carin Hellner (acting) *2004-04-01 – 2011-04-17: Åsa Kastman Heuman *2011-04-18 – 2020-05-01: Hans Ytterberg *2020-05-01 – present: John Ahlberk Notable investigations * Scandinavian Airlines Flight 751 (1991) * M/S ''Estonia'' (1994) * Falsterbo Swedish Coast Guard C-212 crash (2006) * MV ''Finnbir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west. Turkey is home to over 85 million people; most are ethnic Turkish people, Turks, while ethnic Kurds in Turkey, Kurds are the Minorities in Turkey, largest ethnic minority. Officially Secularism in Turkey, a secular state, Turkey has Islam in Turkey, a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital and second-largest city. Istanbul is its largest city and economic center. Other major cities include İzmir, Bursa, and Antalya. First inhabited by modern humans during the Late Paleolithic, present-day Turkey was home to List of ancient peoples of Anatolia, various ancient peoples. The Hattians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antalya
Antalya is the fifth-most populous city in Turkey and the capital of Antalya Province. Recognized as the "capital of tourism" in Turkey and a pivotal part of the Turkish Riviera, Antalya sits on Anatolia's southwest coast, flanked by the Taurus Mountains. The urban population of the city is 1,335,002 (Konyaalti, Kepez, Muratpasa), with a metropolitan population of 2,722,103.2011 Census Turkish Statistical Institute (Büyükşehir belediyeleri ve bağlı belediyelerin nüfusları) – 2011 The city was formerly known as Attalia and was founded in around 200 BC by King [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MD80
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas. It was produced by the developer company until August 1997 and then by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The MD-80 was the second generation of the DC-9 family, originally designated as the DC-9-80 (DC-9 Series 80) and later stylized as the DC-9 Super 80 (short ''Super 80''). Stretched, enlarged wing and powered by higher bypass Pratt & Whitney JT8D-200 engines, the aircraft program was launched in October 1977. The MD-80 made its first flight on October 18, 1979, and was certified on August 25, 1980. The first airliner was delivered to launch customer Swissair on September 13, 1980, which introduced it into service on October 10, 1980. Keeping the fuselage cross-section, longer variants are stretched by 14 ft (4.3 m) from the DC-9-50 and have a 28% larger wing. The larger variants (MD-81/82/83/88) are 148 ft (45.1 m) long to seat 155 passengers in coach and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palma De Mallorca Airport
Palma de Mallorca Airport — also known as Son Sant Joan Airport – is an international airport located east of Palma, Mallorca, Spain, adjacent to the village of Can Pastilla. In 2024, the airport handled 33.3 million passengers, making it the third busiest airport in Spain, after Madrid–Barajas and Barcelona–El Prat; and the fourteenth in Europe. The airport is the main base for the Spanish carrier Air Europa and also a focus airport for Eurowings, EasyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair and Vueling. The airport shares runways with the nearby Son Sant Joan Air Force Base, operated by the Spanish Air and Space Force. History Early years The interest of the Spanish Government in developing airmail during the first decades of the 20th century, led to a study of the possibility of establishing an air mail line to the Balearic Islands. Finally, in 1921, the company AeromarÃtima Mallorquina established the postal line Barcelona - Palma, which used seaplanes in the port of Palma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Palmas Airport
Gran Canaria Airport () is a passenger and freight airport on the island of Gran Canaria. It is an important airport within the Spanish air transport network (owned and managed by a public enterprise, AENA), as it holds the sixth position in terms of passengers, and fifth in terms of operations and cargo transported. It also ranks first of the Canary Islands in all three categories, although the island of Tenerife has higher passenger numbers overall if statistics from the two airports located on the island are combined. The facility covers of land and contains two 3,100m runways. The airport is located in the eastern part of Gran Canaria on the Bay of Gando (BahÃa de Gando), to the southEAD Basic . Ead.eurocontrol.int. Retrieved on 2011-08-02. of |
