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unusual facts about Stavanger Airport, Forus



Convoy HX 65

Six ships were sunk by the U-boats, and two more were sunk by four Heinkel He 115 and eight Junkers Ju 88 bombers of Küstenfliegergruppe 506 based at Stavanger Airport, Sola.

Croydon Cemetery

In addition to these, the cemetery has a memorial to 34 boys and 2 masters from the The Archbishop Lanfranc School, who were killed in an aircraft crash near Stavanger Airport, Sola, in 1961.

Stavanger Airport, Forus

From 1966 it was taken into use by Helikopter Service, who operated their offshore helicopter services out of Forus to the Ekofisk and Frigg platforms in the North Sea.

Work at Forus commenced on 21 April, originally by putting 350 Norwegian prisoners of war to work, in violation with the Hague Convention.

Forus Heliport served two offshore installations, Ekofisk and Frigg.


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