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Scandinavian Mountains Airport (Sälen)

Photo of the airport: Bengt-Inge Larsson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scandinavian Mountains Airport (Sälen) is a remote tower: cameras and sensors at the airport feed controllers who work somewhere else. Opened in December 2019 with no traditional tower; run from Sundsvall.

What the sources say

Opened in December 2019 with no traditional tower; run from Sundsvall.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_and_virtual_tower
Named among the airports served from Sundsvall.https://defence-industry.eu/saab-wins-15-year-stockholm-vasteras-airport-contract-to-expand-remote-air-traffic-control-operations-from-sundsvall/

Timeline

Dec 2019
Opened without a conventional tower

Connections

Lines join each airport to the centre that controls it. Basemap: OpenStreetMap data via Protomaps.

controlled from: LFV Remote Tower Centre Sundsvall Saab LFV

Other sites in Sweden

LFV Remote Tower Centre Sundsvall Örnsköldsvik Airport Sundsvall-Timrå Airport Linköping City Airport LFV Remote Tower Centre Stockholm Kiruna Airport Åre Östersund Airport Umeå Airport

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At a glance

ICAO: ESKS
Country: Sweden
Type: Remote tower
Vendor: Saab
Provider: LFV
Status: Operational
Position: 61.165, 12.834

Sources

2 public sources: defence-industry.eu, en.wikipedia.org.

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