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5000 takeoffs and landings with electric aircraft at Skellefteå Airport

The world's first sustainable flight school, Green Flight Academy, which is established at Skellefteå Airport, conducts international pilot training with a sustainability focus. Since its inception in 2022, the flight school has trained commercial pilots who, among other things, fly electric aircraft in their training. The flight school has now completed 5,000 takeoffs and landings with electric aircraft, which is unique in the world. In…

Active work is underway in Skellefteå for fossil-free aviation. Already in 2020, one of the world's first and most powerful charging stations for electric aircraft was inaugurated, and already in the same year, Green Flight Academy established its operations at Skellefteå Airport.
Since the start, over 45 students have studied in Skellefteå and since the flight school has a strong focus on sustainability, electric aircraft are used in a large part of the training.

The flight school has now completed 5,000 takeoffs and landings with electric aircraft, which is highly unique and probably means that Skellefteå Airport is one of the airports in the world with the most takeoffs and landings with electric aircraft.

  • "The large number of takeoffs and landings with electric aircraft is very unusual and we assess, without having checked all the airports in the world, that we are probably among the top in the world with the most flights with electric aircraft," says Skellefteå Airport CEO Robert Lindberg.

This spring, Green Flight Academy will have the largest number of students since the flight school started, as 13 new students will study to become pilots at the Campus and Skellefteå Airport.

  • "We have great international interest in our education and the number of students is constantly increasing, but only from other countries as Swedish students cannot receive CSN support for pilot training in Skellefteå. The fact is that foreign flight schools are automatically eligible for CSN, a system that unfortunately works against us and Swedish students' ability to train as commercial pilots with a sustainability focus." says Cecilia Holmlund, Site Manager at Green Flight Academy

In 2025, work on fossil-free air transport will continue in Skellefteå through the Arctic Aviation Hub collaboration program. The program will include the inauguration of Europe's second drone airport and intensifying work on the hydrogen flight of the future.

Robert Lindberg
CEO
Skelleftea Airport
+46 70 551 70 75
robert.lindberg@sft.se

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