Torslanda Airport

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Torslanda Airport — served the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, as its main airport from 1923 to 1977, when the Göteborg Landvetter Airport was opened. The airport closed soon afterwards.In 1969, an air traffic control tower was built on an adjacent hilltop as replacement for an older tower built in 1938.IncidentsThe airport had been the site of a mishap on 23 December 1967 when a Douglas DC-6B operated by Sterling Airways carrying 55 passengers en route from Stockholm landed 3000 feet beyond the landing threshold.In a notable 1972 incident, a flight also from Torslanda en route to Stockholm was hijacked and diverted to Bulltofta airport outside the Swedish city of Malmö. Nine Croatians imprisoned nearby were traded for 500.000 SEK before flying to Madrid, Spain, before being captured by police.Use after the closureThe 1969 control tower remains as one of the last artifacts of the airport. Most of the old airport was demolished in 1997, when the former runway paving were mainly removed.Until 1995, Volvo housed its collection of historic vehicles in "The "Blue Hangar" . Now they are located in the Volvo Museum, a few kilometres away.In recent years, the original land from the Torslanda Airport has quickly redeveloped into a residential area known as Amhult, eventually to become a garden village with 900 new homes, a commercial centre, preschool and school.