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Runway under expansion
It is undergoing expansion with a new 2,200 m runway due to open in late 2026 to receive direct international flights.
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Will replace Narsarsuaq International Airport and Qaqortoq Heliport in April 2026.
Will have a 1500 m runway, shorter than Narsarsuaq's.
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This airport has seasonal commercial flights to Copenhagen, and its 3047 m long runway makes it international.
To ensure the image quality, I had to zoom out slightly so that it wouldn't be too blurry.
Technically, this airport is not only a US space base, but it also has commercial flights.
Fun fact: This airport has the longest runway in all of Greenland.
I wonder this airport is whose homebase in our members.
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This airport has international flights to Akureyri and Reykjavik Domestic Airport operated by Norlandair.
(This also makes Reykjavik Domestic Airport international too)
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This airport offers a seasonal international flight to Keflavik International Airport in Iceland, which classifies the airport as international.
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It has been 16 years, and nobody ever left a comment for this big airport since 2009. I am gonna leave one.
Airport info
Use 118,100
Ore use Chanel 6
Runway 08T-26T
Note that the runway designations end in "T" because they're based on true rather than magnetic headings; that's standard for airports in the high Arctic.
Operated by the U.S.
This is a U.S. military base, operated within NATO under the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement.
Heliport closed
No one lives in the village any longer, so the heliport has been closed. See Wikipedia link
DEW line
The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line auxiliary station was actually at Qaqqatoqaq, nearby.
DEW line
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
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
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
Handling here is quick and friendly, if a bit expensive. But then again where else are you going to go in the area!
BGTL
RUNWAY 8---109.50---142º
BGSF
RUNWAY10---VFR---100º
re: Heliport
Thanks for the link -- I've updated the heliport using the information in it.
Heliport
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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🔗 Fri, 16 Jan 2026
— @I_Am_So_Handsome at Nuuk International Airport, Greenland
New 2200 m runway, but still not shown in the satellite image. I wonder when it will.