Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen

ICAO ENKR69.7258°N 29.8913°E86 m / 283 ftMedium airport

Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen (IATA: KKN, ICAO: ENKR) is a medium airport in Kirkenes, Finnmark, Norway. It opened in 1963. It has one runway, 2,115 m (6,939 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Avinor. In 2025 it handled 326 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1963–1963

1963

OpenedKirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

05/23069° / 249° · LIT

LENGTH2,115 m6,939 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

306K

316K

315K

314K

166K

190K

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326K

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Routes

13 destinations · 2 countries

Most destinationsWiderøe 10Finnair 2Norwegian Air Shuttle 2Scandinavian Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KKN. From the Wikipedia article “Kirkenes Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers326K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,300of 3,974 · #281 Europe · #15 NO Longest runway2,115 m6,939 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,550of 29,823 · #675 Europe · #20 NO Elevation86 m283 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=31,720of 43,341 · =3,853 Europe · #64 NO AgeOpened 19632026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,069of 15,079 · =988 Europe · =21 NO Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =5 NO

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

2 channels

ATISATIS118.025

TWRKIRKENES TWR118.100