Gävle-Sandviken Airport

Gävle-Sandviken Airport
Gestrike Airport

IATA: GVX – ICAO: ESSK

Summary

Opened

1971

Passenger services ceased

2000

Coordinates

60°35′40″N 16°57′04″E / 60.59444°N 16.95111°ECoordinates: 60°35′40″N 16°57′04″E / 60.59444°N 16.95111°E

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
000/180	6,600	2,000	asphalt

Gävle-Sandviken Airport, also called Gestrike Airport, is a public airport in Sweden, with a single runway 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) long.

It was built and opened in 1971. Between 1971 and 2000 there was scheduled passenger traffic to Stockholm. There has also been traffic to Gothenburg and some charter destinations. The traffic was never really profitable, and better roads and railways have taken over the traffic.

The airport is used for taxi flights, ambulance flights, photo flights for Lantmäteriet (Swedish National Land Survey), private planes and more.

Airports in Sweden

Major international	Stockholm-Arlanda

Minor international	Ängelholm–Helsingborg Åre Östersund Borlänge Göteborg-Landvetter Halmstad Jönköping Kalmar Karlstad Kiruna Kristianstad Linköping-City Luleå Malmö Norrköping Örebro Örnsköldsvik Ronneby Skellefteå Stockholm-Bromma Stockholm-Skavsta Stockholm-Västerås Sundsvall–Timrå Umeå Växjö Visby

Domestic	Arvidsjaur Gällivare Hagfors Hemavan Kramfors Lycksele Mora–Siljan Pajala Sveg Torsby Trollhättan–Vänersborg Vilhelmina

Unscheduled	Eskilstuna Gävle Göteborg-City Hultsfred Lidköping Oskarshamn Storuman

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