Sodankylä Airfield
Sodankylä Airfield is an airfield in Sodankylä, Lapland, Finland, located 3 kilometres south-east of Sodankylä municipal centre. The airfield was originally built in the early 1940s, initially as a stopover airfield for the flights to Petsamo.- Type: Airport
- Description: airfield in Sodankylä, Finland
- Also known as: “Sodankylä Aerodrome”, “Sodankyla Airport”, “Sodankylä Airport”, and “Sodankylae Airfield”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sodankylä Old Church and The Alariesto Museum and Gallery.
Sodankylä Old Church
Church
Sodankylä Old Church is a 17th-century wooden church located near the Kitinen River in the Sodankylä municipality in Lapland, Finland. The church is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches in Finland.
Sodankylä Airfield
- Categories: airport, airstrip, and transportation
- Location: Sodankylä, Pohjois-Lappi, North-east Lapland, Finnish Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
67.39503° or 67° 23′ 42″ north
Longitude
26.61913° or 26° 37′ 9″ east
Elevation
183 metres (600 feet)
IATA airport code
SOT
ICAO airport code
EFSO
Open location code
9GV89JW9+2M
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tajik—“Sodankylä Airfield” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار سودانكيلا”
- Cebuano: “Sodankylä Airfield”
- Chinese: “索丹屈莱机场”
- Finnish: “Sodankylän lentoasema”
- Finnish: “Sodankylän lentokenttä”
- Finnish: “Sodankylän lentopaikka”
- French: “Aérodrome de Sodankylä”
- German: “Flughafen Sodankylä”
- German: “Flugplatz Sodankylä”
- Japanese: “ソダンキュラ空港”
- Latvian: “Sodankiles lidlauks”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Sodankyla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sodankylä lufthavn”
- Norwegian: “Sodankylä lufthavn”
- Persian: “EFSO”
- Persian: “SOT”
- Persian: “فرودگاه سدانکوله”
- Persian: “فرودگاه سودانکیلا”
- Polish: “Port Lotniczy Sodankylä”
- Russian: “Соданкюля”
- Swedish: “Sodankylä flygplats”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи судонкило”
- “EFSO”
- “Sodankylä”
- “SOT”
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