When most Danish Airports has decreasing activity in the domestic traffic in the beginning of this century Aalborg was the only regional airport with increasing number of passengers. The airplane is the only fast mean of transportation from Aalborg to Copenhagen.

Located very close to the City Aalborg this airport serves both as civilian airport and air force base.

Today you see more than 10+ daily departures to Copenhagen, a flight of only 30 minutes. Furthermore you have connections to Billund, southern Norway, Faroe Islands and Helsinki and many charter flights. In 2004 approx 600.000 passengers used the airport.

Aalborg airport was build by the Germans during World War 2. It's ICAO code "EKYT" is said to be short of the words "Yellow target" which was the codename for the airport used by the allied.

Local regulations in Aalborg

When visiting the airport please notice:

No SID/STAR established
When RWY 26R active the pilot can expect a short approach (4nm) via AAL (VOR)
When the weather permits visual approaches will be offered.
Jets should avoid to overfly Aalborg City blow 2300 feet.
Jet-departures: RWY08: no turn before D2 AAL VOR (Towards). RWY26: no turn before 2000ft.
There is no push back from the stands. Except if aircraft to the right is of same (or larger) category.

Danish NOTAMs

Charts

The Danish AIP is available online through The Danish Civil Aviation Authority (SLV).

For the latest and updated charts we recommend that you pay www.slv.dk a visit. Below we link to the most important charts. Point your browser at www.slv.dk/dokumenter for charts.

Logo	Type	Author	Description	Link
EKYT	Chart page	SLV	Table of content of SLV's EKYT page	SLV
GND	Parking	SLV	Apron/Parking	SLV
GND	Ground	SLV	Airport overview	SLV
IAL	Approach	SLV	Approach charts	RWY26R RWY08L
VFR	VFR	SLV	VFR chart for Aalborg	SLV

Runways

Runway 26R/08L is the main runway.
Taxiway C to the terminal is located halfway down the runway on the south site.

RWY	Dimension	ILS	OBS	Remark
26L	2654 x 45	109.90	265	CAT II
08R	2654 x 45	109.90	085	CAT I
26R	2549 x 23		265
08L	2549 x 23		085

Terminals

The passenger terminal is located south of the runways. There is no difference between international and domestic flights. GA is parked opposite the terminal apron on the grass.

Military airbase is located north of the runways, however not included in the sceneries.

Communications

This is a list of the frequencies used at the airport.

ID	Freq	Callsign
EKDK_CTR	135.270	Copenhagen Control
EKDK_N_CTR *	126.050	Copenhagen Control (North)
EKYT_APP	123.970	Aalborg Approach
EKYT_TWR	118.300	Aalborg Tower
EKCH_ATIS	---.---	Aalborg ATIS