Top ten (twenty?) busiest GA airfields in your country?

UZA Rock Hill- York County, SC……………….. 46,000 My little non Towered airport

Well, if you are looking for busy GA airport, Norway is not the place to look If you are not looking for busy GA airports, but some peace and quite, then you have come to the right place There are small strips all over if you look closely.

I think the most busiest GA airports, are also the busiest airline airports. Like Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, Tromsø and Bodø maybe. Gardermoen may also count, but why go there when you can go to Kjeller. Then there are aerial sporting airports like Notodden, Elverum (Starmoen) and Oppdal. They are really busy at times, several hundred movements per day, but zero other days.

Peter wrote:

Can anyone contribute for Sweden, Norway, Austria, and other places?

I don’t have any statistics, but I would guess some of the more important ones in Sweden are Västerås (ESOW), Säve (ESGP), Linköping (ESSL). In Västerås and Linköping, the local clubs runs the GA centres so you should mail them rather than the airport operators. I don’t know the situation in Säve since it closed as an instrument airport, but I would think the clubs are the best bet there as well. And also commercial flight schools — there are several in Västerås.

Peter wrote:

OK; thanks. I did a google for Västerås aeroclub and found this. Does that look about right, as an example?

No, that’s not the one. You got the Stockholm Aeroclub which was evicted from Stockholm/Bromma airport a few years ago together with almost all other GA. They are still in operation with their aircraft based at Västerås and Nyköping (ESKN).

This is the one: http://hasslo.org. Their mail address is: Hässlö Flygförening, Hässlögatan 10, 721 31 Västerås. (Hässlö is the old name of the airport before Ryanair and the like made it “Stockholm/Västerås”.)

Airborne_Again wrote:

Can anyone contribute for Sweden, Norway, Austria, and other places?

Adding to @Airborne_Again ’s comment, Västerås/Johannisberg(ESSX) is also a very busy airfield during summer with gliders, Cherokees and meatbombing. All this in a congested airspace makes it very busy during sunny weekends.

In the most southern parts of Sweden there is also a good GA scene but they seem to be equally spread over the area and not concentrated to one airfield.

For Austria… I don’t Think there are open Statistics but here are some of the busiest:

Bad Vöslau (LOAV)
Wiener Neustadt (LOAN)
Wels (LOLW)
Schärding/Suben (LOLS)
Zell am See (LOWZ)

To realy reach the local Pilots you are probably best of asking the adressing Airfield to also distribute it to the Clubs, If you want to send it to the Clubs directly this are (from my Knowledge) the biggest Clubs, when it come to No. of Members:

Flugsportzentrum Tirol
Flieger-Union Schärding
Aeroclub Bodensee

For Austria, add Stockerau (LOAU) which has a very busy club, it’s NW of Vienna (about 20 miles or so).