Lakselv Airport, Banak

Local nameLakselv lufthavn, Banak (LKL)
LocationNord-Norge, Norway

Station Group Banak, formerly Banak Air Station, is a military airbase located at Banak, just north of Lakselv in Porsanger in Finnmark, Norway. Operated by the Royal Norwegian Air Force, it serves a detachment of the 330 Squadron, which operates two Westland Sea King helicopters used for search and rescue operations in Finnmark, Svalbard and surrounding Arctic sea areas. Of the station's two helicopters, one is on standby at any given time. The station group is co-located with the civilian Lakselv Airport, Banak and is administratively under the 132nd Air Wing and Bodø Main Air Station. Banak is RNoAF's most northerly base and has fifty employees.

The airfield was first built with triangular runways in 1938. It was taken over by the Luftwaffe in 1940, who expanded it and laid down two wooden runways. Banak was taken over by the RNoAF in 1945, but abandoned in 1952.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Group_Banak

Official Website https://avinor.no/en/airport/lakselv

Address 9700, Norway

Coordinates 70°4'1.239" N 24°57'53.092" E

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