Hornafjörður Airport or Hornafjordur Airport is an airport serving Höfn,

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. The airport is north of the town. It is served by Norlandair with regular flights to Reykjavík Airport. The Hornafjordur

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(Ident: HN) is located 1.24 nautical miles off the threshold of runway 36. The airport was opened on 22 September 1965, replacing a landing area on coastal spit south of the town at Melatangi, Suðurfjörður. The airport originally opened with a second 800m runway which ran east-west, later decommissioned. A larger terminal building was added in 1982. In the 2013 film '' The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'', Hornafjörður Airport is depicted as

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, with an

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aircraft landing there.

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