The US military originally built this airport in 1956 as part of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line to detect Soviet bombers attacking over the Arctic during the Cold War. It is now a civilian airport with STOL air service.
Research facility, wait that should be "facility" as it's pretty basic for core drilling only and not much else out there. Runway is visible past the peaks and since drilling is done in summer there is lots of light to see by.
Flew in to Nord on a charter flight in the summer of 2003, the landing strip was well kept in the frozen land and even in summer it was quite cold there. Research and military personnel, no sun from mid-Nov to end of January, charters have to fly in daylight, military I heard was allowed to fly in at night..
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DEW line
🔗 Tue, 25 Jan 2022
— @david at Sisimiut Airport, Greenland
The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line auxiliary station was actually at Qaqqatoqaq, nearby.
Airport photo
🔗 Mon, 24 Jan 2022
— @david at Kulusuk Airport, Greenland
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kulsusuk_Airport_-_panorama_(25046985024).jpg
DEW line
🔗 Mon, 24 Jan 2022
— @david at Kulusuk Airport, Greenland
The US military originally built this airport in 1956 as part of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line to detect Soviet bombers attacking over the Arctic during the Cold War. It is now a civilian airport with STOL air service.
Snow Runway
🔗 Thu, 21 Apr 2016
— @jwatsontravel at NEEM Camp Skiway, Greenland
Research facility, wait that should be "facility" as it's pretty basic for core drilling only and not much else out there. Runway is visible past the peaks and since drilling is done in summer there is lots of light to see by.
Charter flights
🔗 Thu, 21 Apr 2016
— @jwatsontravel at Station Nord Landing Strip, Greenland
Flew in to Nord on a charter flight in the summer of 2003, the landing strip was well kept in the frozen land and even in summer it was quite cold there. Research and military personnel, no sun from mid-Nov to end of January, charters have to fly in daylight, military I heard was allowed to fly in at night..
Expensive but efficient
🔗 Thu, 27 Aug 2009
— @philippe at Kangerlussuaq Airport, Greenland
Handling here is quick and friendly, if a bit expensive. But then again where else are you going to go in the area!
BGTL
🔗 Thu, 30 Jul 2009
— @jmblanco430 at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland
RUNWAY 8---109.50---142º
BGSF
🔗 Tue, 28 Jul 2009
— @jmblanco430 at Kangerlussuaq Airport, Greenland
RUNWAY10---VFR---100º
re: Heliport
🔗 Wed, 02 Jul 2008
— @david at Alluitsup Paa Heliport, Greenland
Thanks for the link -- I've updated the heliport using the information in it.
Heliport
🔗 Tue, 01 Jul 2008
— @cweiss at Alluitsup Paa Heliport, Greenland
According to the following document, this is a heliport.
http://www.slv.dk/Dokumenter/dscgi/ds.py/Get/File-899/BG_AD_3_BGAP_en.pdf
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