founded 1 july 1947 as luftfartsverket 1 january 2003 as avinor headquarters oslo norway area served norway key people dag falk petersen ceo ola m rkved rinnan chairman number of employees 2 400 parent norwegian ministry of transport and communications website avinor.no en avinor as is a state owned limited company that operates most of the civil airports in norway . the norwegian state via the norwegian ministry of transport and communications controls 100 percent of the share capital . avinor was created on 1 january 2003 by the privatization of the norwegian civil aviation administration known as luftfartsverket . its head office is in bj rvika oslo located on the seaside of oslo central station . 1 avinor owns and operates 46 airports in norway fourteen in association with the royal norwegian air force and is responsible for air traffic control services in norway . in addition to the 46 airports it operates three area control centers bod air traffic control center stavanger air traffic control center and oslo atcc . as of 2010 update the chief executive officer was sverre quale who has been in the job since 18 april 2006 . he was previously the head of the norwegian accident investigation board . as of 2011 sverre quale has been employed as the chief executive at multiconsult . his replacement dag falk petersen has served as ceo of chc helicopters . avinor has about 2 400 employees including air traffic control air navigation services rescue maintenance administration and other airport operations personnel . history edit on 1 july 1947 the norwegian ministry of transport and communication created the aviation directorate luftfartsdirektoratet to take over the responsibility for the civilian airports in norway . until then the norwegian ministry of defence was responsible for operating airports including the civilian ones . this responsibility had been delegated to the aviation council luftfartsr det within the ministry . the first director was einar b e 1947 1964 followed by erik willoch 1964 1989 ove liavaag 1989 2000 randi flesland 2000 2005 sverre quale 2006 2010 2 and dag falk petersen 2011 . the organisation changed name its to luftfartsverket in 1967 . 3 in 1997 oslo airport fornebu and the then under construction oslo airport gardermoen where merged into a separate subsidiary oslo lufthavn as . this company still operates oslo airport gardermoen . on 14 december 2005 ceo randi flesland resigned after an ongoing dispute with employees . she was temporarily replaced by nic . nilsen until sverre quale took over . references edit contact us . avinor . retrieved on 9 march 2010 . malm morten 1947 . norge p vingene . oslo andante forlag . p. 45 . isbn 82 91056 13 7 . malm morten 1947 . norge p vingene . oslo andante forlag . p. 50 . isbn 82 91056 13 7 . external links edit norway portal aviation portal official website about avinor english official website norwegian v t e norwegian ministry of transport and communications companies baneservice state railways post infrastructure avinor coastal administration rail administration road administration authorities accident investigation board civil aviation communications railway minister of transport and communications retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title avinor & oldid 736743901 categories airport operatorsgovernment owned companies of norwayavinorair navigation service providersministry of transport and communications norway hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles containing potentially dated statements from 2010all articles containing potentially dated statementsofficial website different in wikidata and wikipediaarticles with norwegian language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages danskdeutscheestiespa ol norsk bokm lnorsk nynorskpolskisvenska edit links this page was last modified on 29 august 2016 at 15 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view