Akureyri International Airport

Akureyri International Airport (AEY/BIAR) is in Akureyri, IS, 2 m above sea level. It has 1 runway and the longest is 2,700 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
AEY · BIAR
City
Akureyri
Country
IS
Coordinates
65.6566, -18.0720
Elevation
2 m · 6 ft
Time zone
Atlantic/Reykjavik
Local time now
13:19
Airspace
Reykjavik
Departures observed
18 · 18 arrivals
Most seen destinations
RKV

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (8)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
00:51FNA77BE20 · TF-NLBRKV
08:29ICE31RDH8D · TF-FXERKV
09:30FNA564BE20 · TF-MYB
17:01ICE47RDH8B · TF-FXGRKV
19:22FNA78BE20 · TF-NLBRKV
19:57ICE51RDH8D · TF-FXERKV
21:33ICE49RDH8B · TF-FXGRKV
21:56ICE53RDH8D · TF-FXERKV

Landed (10)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
03:52FNA77BE20 · TF-NLBRKV
07:49ICE30RDH8D · TF-FXERKV
08:57FNA550BE20 · TF-MYBRKV
11:40CTM1305TBM7 · 111FAE
16:23ICE46RDH8B · TF-FXGRKV
19:14ICE5601DH8D · TF-FXERKV
20:04FNA502DHC6 · TF-NLC
21:09ICE27YDH8B · TF-FXGRKV
21:30ICE51RDH8D · TF-FXERKV
21:38FNA77BE20 · TF-NLBRKV

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (1)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
01/192,700 m · 8,858 ftasphalt356° · 176°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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And this on board

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