VAW

Vardø Airport, Svartnes

ICAO ENSS70.3554°N 31.0449°E13 m / 42 ftMedium airport
On the map

Vardø Airport, Svartnes (IATA: VAW, ICAO: ENSS) is a medium airport in Vardø, Finnmark, Norway. It opened in 1943. It has one runway, 1,130 m (3,707 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Avinor. In 2022 it handled 28 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1943–1943
1943
OpenedVardø Airport, Svartnes opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
15/33163° / 343° · LIT
LENGTH1,130 m3,707 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
30K
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17K
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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

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

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers28K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,320of 3,974 · #481 Europe · #39 NOLongest runway1,130 m3,707 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=11,506of 29,823 · =1,260 Europe · #38 NOElevation13 m42 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,666of 43,341 · =5,336 Europe · =106 NOAgeOpened 19432026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,016of 15,079 · =662 Europe · #10 NORunways11 · 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

1 channels
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