Kjeller Aero Senter (KAS) wish to develop a new airfield for training activities close to ENKJ, due to heavy restrictions, and as a plan B if the Norwegian Air Force decides to move their activities from the airport. Today students have to fly 40 minutes to ENRY for touch-and-go practice. A KAS working group has sent a formal request to Aurskog-Høland, and the good news is a positive mayor and an initial search for location. However, a question left to be answered is; who is going to pay for this? I used to be a member of the KAS working group. The mission was two-folded: Fight for a future at ENKJ, and search for a possible training site. I left as the focus became single minded on building a new airport, without having any idea about financing.
Preserving 800 meters, about half the Kjeller airstrip, sounds far more economically viable than planning without a penny. My fear is that the chosen strategy will lead to no new airfield, and the closing of Norway's first airport without anyone lobbying against turning this historic site in to a shopping mall.
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