Nerlerit Inaat Airport

Nerlerit Inaat Airport Mittarfik Nerlerit Inaat Constable Pynt Lufthavn Nerlerit Inaat Lufthavn
Nerlerit Inaat from Harris Fjeld
IATA: CNP – ICAO: BGCO
Summary
Operator		Mittarfeqarfiit
Serves		Ittoqqortoormiit
Elevation AMSL		45 ft / 14 m
Coordinates		70°44′35″N 022°39′02″W / 70.74306°N 22.65056°W / 70.74306; -22.65056Coordinates: 70°44′35″N 022°39′02″W / 70.74306°N 22.65056°W / 70.74306; -22.65056
Website		Nerlerit Inaat Lufthavne
Map
BGCO Location in Greenland
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
18/36	1,000	3,281	Gravel
Source: Danish AIS[1]

Nerlerit Inaat Airport (Kalaallisut: Mittarfik Nerlerit Inaat, Danish: Constable Pynt Lufthavn) (IATA: CNP, ICAO: BGCO) is an airport in the Sermersooq municipality in eastern Greenland. It is located on Jameson Land and serves the town of Ittoqqortoormiit, approximately 40 km (25 mi) to the south-east. The airport can serve STOL aircraft. A Bell 222 helicopter of Air Greenland is permanently housed at the airport, linking it with Ittoqqortoormiit Heliport. The helicopter also provides search and rescue capabilities within the surrounding area, and can be chartered for transport.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal building

Airlines	Destinations
Air Greenland	Ittoqqortoormiit[2]
Air Iceland	Kulusuk, Reykjavík-domestic[3]

Relocation

The airport may be relocated to a new site on Liverpool Land closer to Ittoqqortoormiit, between the settlement and Uunarteq cape (Danish: Kap Tobin) to the south, thus eliminating the need for helicopter transfers.^[4]

Expeditions

The airport acts as stopping off point for a number of expeditions into Jameson Land and Northeast Greenland National Park. Areas such as Renland have only just been visited,^[5] or have had no known visitors.

In summer 2004 the airport was the destination of an arctic trip by two German microlight pilots flying a Flight Design CT2K light aircraft.^[6]

References

1. ^ BGCO – Nerlerit Inaat Airport (PDF). Greenlandic Aeronautical Information Publication from Statens Luftfartsvæsen (CAA-DK).
2. ^ "Booking system". Air Greenland. http://book.airgreenland.com/. Retrieved 9 June 2010. 
3. ^ Air Iceland Timetable
4. ^ "Øget trafik i Nationalparken" (in Danish). Sermitsiaq. 9 March 2010. http://sermitsiaq.gl/politik/article112438.ece. Retrieved 17 May 2010. 
5. ^ Expedition report
6. ^ "In a microlight aircraft to Greenland" (German)