Farsund Airport, Lista is a now closed former public

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and blimps take off and land. Aircraft may be stored or maintained at an airport...

 and military aerodrome

Aerodrome

An aerodrome, airdrome or airfield is a term for any location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve cargo, passengers or neither...

 located in Farsund

Farsund

is a town and municipality in the county of Vest-Agder, Norway.The town of Farsund was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 , although already recognized as a trading center in 1795...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Until 1996 is was also the Royal Norwegian Air Force

Royal Norwegian Air Force

The Royal Norwegian Air Force is the air force of Norway. It was established as a separate arm of the Norwegian armed forces on 10 November 1944. The RNoAF's peace force is approximately 1,430 employees . 600 personnel also serve their draft period in the RNoAF...

 Lista Air Station, and until 2002 it was part of Luftfartsverket

Avinor

Avinor AS is a state owned limited company in that operates most of the civil airports in Norway. The Norwegian state, via the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications controls 100 percent of the share capital. Avinor was created on 1 January 2003, by the privatization of the...

. The airport is now disused and owned by Lista Flypark AS.

History

Services started in 1955 when Braathens SAFE received permission to start scheduled flights from Oslo Airport, Fornebu

Oslo Airport, Fornebu

Oslo Airport, Fornebu was the main airport serving Oslo and Eastern Norway from 1 June 1939 to 7 October 1998. It was then replaced by Oslo Airport, Gardermoen and the area has since been redeveloped. The airport was located at Fornebu in Bærum, from the city center. Fornebu had two runways, one...

 - Farsund - Stavanger Airport, Sola

Stavanger Airport, Sola

Stavanger Airport, Sola is an international airport located in Sola, Norway, southwest of Stavanger. It is Norway's third-busiest airport, with both fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter traffic for the offshore North Sea oil installations...

 with de Havilland DH-114 Heron

De Havilland Heron

The de Havilland DH.114 Heron was a small, propeller-driven British airliner that first flew on 10 May 1950. It was a development of the twin-engine de Havilland Dove, with a stretched fuselage and two more engines. It was designed as a rugged, conventional low-wing monoplane with tricycle...

 aircraft. These were later terminated. In 1983 Norving

Norving

Norving A/S was a regional airline that operated in Norway between 1971 and 1993. It had roots back to the establishment of Varangfly in 1959. At the most, the company had eight bases and 27 aircraft.-History:...

 started scheduled traffic to Oslo, Skien Airport, Geiteryggen

Skien Airport, Geiteryggen

Skien Airport, Geiteryggen is an airport located 2.5 km southwest of the city centre of Skien, Norway. Skien Lufthavn AS operates the airport and this company is owned by the local municipality of Skien in the Grenland region. Services are provided by Danish Air Transport to Bergen and Stavanger...

 and Stavanger. In 1996 the military section at the airport was closed, but Air Stord started regular scheduled flight to Oslo, but in 1999 the company went bankrupt. This resulted in Guard Air flying to Oslo, but the flights were terminated before the year was over. In 2001 the operating company Liste Lufthavn chartered a plane from Sundt Air to operate flights to Oslo, but this service did not either manage to last beyond the year. In 2002 the Norwegian Air Force sold the airport to Lista Flypark, in an agreement that later created massive criticism since the air force actually paid the company NOK

Norwegian krone

The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...

 11 million to purchase the airport. The same year Ben Air Norge started a bi-weekly air taxi

Air taxi

An air taxi is an air charter passenger or cargo aircraft which operates on an on-demand basis.-Regulation:In the United States, air taxi and air charter operations are governed by Part 135 of the Federal Aviation Regulations , unlike the larger scheduled air carriers which are governed by more...

 service to Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik

Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik

Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik is situated northeast of the city Kristiansand, Vest-Agder in southern Norway, located from the city centre. The airport serves the Agder district with domestic and international flights. In 2008 the airport had 915,092 passengers. The airport is operated by Avinor...

, mainly to hinder Luftfartsverket

Avinor

Avinor AS is a state owned limited company in that operates most of the civil airports in Norway. The Norwegian state, via the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications controls 100 percent of the share capital. Avinor was created on 1 January 2003, by the privatization of the...

 from removing the AFIS

AFIS

AFIS can refer to:* Aerodrome Flight Information Service* Airborne Flight Information System, an avionics system proprietary to Honeywell Aerospace* American Forces Information Service* Automated Fingerprint Identification System...

subsidy of NOK 1.5 million. The service was since terminated.