Kirkenes lufthavn, Høybuktmoen / Girkonjárgga girdihámman / Kirkkoniemen lentohamina

Arriving Kirkenes from Tromsø, OY-KHE applies full braking power on the engines, but not on the brakes as the runway is snow covered. Note the fully extended clam shells on the engines.

Winter scene at Kirkenes - Høybuktmoen in the last month of Twin Otter operations in Norway ending the Widerøe's 33-year operation of the type.

Widerøe, Northern Norway, and the Twin Otter were synonymous from 1968 to the end of the last century. Most Twin Otters were retired in 1995, but one soldiered on serving the small coastal community of Båtsfjord which had a gravel strip. When WF945 landed at Båtsfjord on the evening of March 31, 2000, the last commercial de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter flight in Norway had come to pass.

Widerøe, Northern Norway, and the Twin Otter were synonymous from 1968 to the end of the last century. Most Twin Otters were retired in 1995, but one soldiered on serving the small coastal community of Båtsfjord which had a gravel strip. When WF945 landed at Båtsfjord on the evening of March 31, 2000, the last commercial de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter flight in Norway had come to pass.

Saxo Viking meeting Widerøe's Båtsfjord at Kirkenes a few weeks before the Twin Otter was retired after over 30 years service in Northern Norway