page_title: Kautokeino Airport
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kautokeino Airport / History
caption_attribution_description: Original bildetekst: Et tysk fly blev skutt ned. Det lå på flyplassen i Kautokeino, men er sikkert falt ned. Fotografiet kommer fra et album gitt til Riksarkivet av sykepleier Marie Lysnes. Våren 1945 deltok hun i opprettelsen av et feltsykehus i Finnmark. Lysnes dokumenterte oppholdet i Finnmark gjennom tekst og bilder. Albumet er en del av privatarkivet etter Marie Lysnes. Arkivreferanse: PA-0873: Lysnes, Marie, Riksarkivet. English: Photo from National Archives of Norway's Flickr-Album "Sykepleier Marie Lysnes' album" ("Album of nurse Marie Lysnes", all images marked with "No known copyright restrictions")
context_page_description: Kautokeino Airport is a general aviation airport located in Kautokeino in Troms og Finnmark, Norway. It consists of a 1,200-meter gravel runway. The airport was built by the Luftwaffe during World War II. It was rebuilt in 1958 by the Royal Norwegian Air Force to supply its radar station at Kautokeino. It is largely unused and is now owned by the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property and the Finnmark Estate. Local politicians have called for the airport to be upgraded to a regional airport, but this has been rejected by Avinor.
context_section_description: The airfield was built by the Luftwaffe as an emergency landing field during the early 1940s. In addition to this, it stationed a detachment of reconnaissance aircraft. The Royal Norwegian Air Force established a radio station at Kautokeino in 1945. Transport to the new airport was among other means carried out using seaplanes which used the Altaelva river to land. The station was upgraded in 1955 and received a radar and was designated as a reporting post. Its first upgrade took place in 1958, the same year as renovations of the airfield were carried out. The main users of the airfield were Twin Otters from Bodø Main Air Station. On occasion supplies would be dropped by parachute. Once only a jet fighter has landed here, even if the field is too short for them. In June 1970 an F5 landed and took off, then using a parachute and extra rockets. Enontekiö Airport in Finland started marketing itself as Enontekiö–Kautokeino Saami Airport from 2008, although Finavia does not use the term any more. Enontekiö is located 90 kilometers (56 mi) from Kautokeino.
  Local politicians have proposed that Kautokeino Airport be rebuilt as a regional airport. In 2007 a unison municipal council supported an upgrade to the airport. They cited that Kautokeino would receive a hotel from 2008 and that it would be necessary to have an airport to support the village's tourism industry. A secondary argument is that an upgraded airport could be used for an air ambulance service. Finnmark County Council voted with a single decisive vote in 2010 to work towards making Kautokeino Finnmark's twelfth regional airport.
caption: Norwegian soldiers with the wreck of a German aircraft at Kautokeino Airport in spring 1945
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