Sandefjord Airport, Torp
minor international airport located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northeast of Sandefjord and 110 kilometers (68 mi) south of Oslo in Norway
Sandefjord Airport, Torp (Norwegian: Sandefjord lufthavn, Torp; IATA: TRF, ICAO: ENTO) is a minor international airport located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northeast of Sandefjord and 110 kilometers (68 mi) south of Oslo in Norway. The airport features a 2,989-meter (9,806 ft) runway aligned 18/36. Torp partially serves as a regional airport for Vestfold and in part as a low-cost airport for Eastern Norway and the capital, Oslo. Widerøe have a base at Torp, serving both domestic and shorter international flights. It also sees scheduled flights by airBaltic, Ryanair, Wizz Air, Scandinavian Airlines, and Norwegian Air Shuttle. As of 2021, it was the second-largest airport in eastern Norway in terms of flights after Rygge shut down in 2016.
The airport was built largely with NATO funding as one of several bases to be used by the United States Air Force in case of war. Construction started in 1953 and the airport was opened on 2 July 1956. By then, the military interest in the airport had dwindled. Civilian flights commenced in 1958, and in 1960, a municipal airport company was established to run a civilian sector.
“Sandefjord Airport, Torp” enters the record as minor international airport located 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northeast of Sandefjord and 110 kilometers (68 mi) south of Oslo in Norway. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sandefjord, Airport and Torp can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q957105. VIAF identifies the subject as 1693149198361374940003. Authority coordinates are 59.187, 10.259. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2016, 1953 and 1956.
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