Kuopio Airport Kuopion lentoasema
The new Air Traffic Control tower
IATA: KUO – ICAO: EFKU
Summary
Airport type		Public / Military
Operator		Finavia / Finnish Air Force
Serves		Kuopio, Finland
Location		Siilinjärvi, Finland
Elevation AMSL		323 ft / 98 m
Coordinates		63°00′31″N 027°47′40″E / 63.00861°N 27.79444°E / 63.00861; 27.79444Coordinates: 63°00′31″N 027°47′40″E / 63.00861°N 27.79444°E / 63.00861; 27.79444
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
15/33	2,800	9,186	Asphalt
Source: AIP Finland[1]

Kuopio Airport (IATA: KUO, ICAO: EFKU) is an airport in Siilinjärvi, Finland and serving the city of Kuopio.

It is currently 7th most popular airport in Finland (inland airports: 2nd, after Rovaniemi). Thanks to a growing number of passengers^[2] and shared use of the runways by the Finnish Air Force and civil airlines, Kuopio Airport is one of only five profitable airports in Finland.

Kuopio Airport was completed in November 1939. Flight operations started in May 1940. It was used by the Luftwaffe during World War II (1942–43).

During the Continuation War the runways were made from plywood.

[edit] Lake terminal

Lake terminal

Lake terminal interior

Lake Saimaa highlighted

A unique airport Lake Terminal was completed in March 2008. The terminal is situated some 200 metres (660 ft) from the airport tower. It connects the airport to Lake Saimaa region.

Lake Saimaa offers a waterway connection to the cities of the Finnish Lakeland: Imatra, Joensuu, Kuopio, Lappeenranta, Mikkeli, Savonlinna and Varkaus. Vuoksi River flows from Saimaa to Lake Ladoga (Russia). Saimaa Canal connects Saimaa with the Gulf of Finland.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Old tower

Domestic

• airBaltic (Tampere)
• Blue1 (Helsinki)
• Finnair (Helsinki)
• Finncomm Airlines (Helsinki)

International

• airBaltic (Riga)

Also charter flights during main holiday periods.

[edit] Finnish Air Force

FAF's old workhorse MiG-21F-13 on display near the main entrance

Kuopio Airport is also home of the Finnish Air Force's Karelian Air Command and the Fighter Squadron 31 (HävLLv 31).

[edit] Statistics

[edit] See also

• List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kuopio Airport

• Kuopio Airport – Official website
• AIP Finland – Kuopio Airport
• Current weather for EFKU at NOAA/NWS
• Airport information for EFKU at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• Airport information for KUO at Great Circle Mapper.
• Accident history for KUO at Aviation Safety Network
• Airliners.net: Pictures from the Kuopio Airport
• airBaltic Kuopio

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