Innaarsuit Heliport

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Innaarsuit Heliport
Summary
Airport typePublic
Operator Greenland Airport Authority
(Mittarfeqarfiit)
Serves Innaarsuit, Greenland
Elevation  AMSL 95 ft / 29 m
Coordinates 73°12′09″N056°00′40″W / 73.20250°N 56.01111°W / 73.20250; -56.01111 Coordinates: 73°12′09″N056°00′40″W / 73.20250°N 56.01111°W / 73.20250; -56.01111
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BGIN
Location in Greenland
Helipads
NumberLengthSurface
mft
11549Gravel
Source: Danish AIS [1]

Innaarsuit Heliport( IATA : IUI, ICAO : BGIN) is a heliport in Innaarsuit, a village in the Upernavik Archipelago of Avannaata municipality in northwestern Greenland. The heliport is considered a helistop, and is served by Air Greenland as part of a government contract.

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Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Greenland (settlement flights) Tasiusaq, Upernavik [2]

Air Greenland operates government contract flights to villages in the Upernavik area. These mostly cargo flights are not featured in the timetable, [2] although they can be pre-booked. [3] Departure times for these flights as specified during booking are by definition approximate, with the settlement service optimized on the fly depending on local demand for a given day.

Accidents

In 1993 a Bell 212 helicopter operated by Grønlandsfly, crashed near Innarsuit. Four killed (both pilots and two passengers) of seven on board. [4] [5]

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References

  1. Greenland AIP for BGIN – Innaarsuit Heliport from Naviair
  2. 1 2 "Booking system". Air Greenland. Archived from the original on 22 April 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2010.
  3. Air Greenland, fare system rules Archived 2010-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 32478
  5. FOUR KILLED IN HELICOPTER CRASH IN GREENLAND