The Navy Air Service returned in 1939 and decided to build a base, but there was no time to carry out the plans before the German invasion the following year.

[1] From November 1929 the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service set up a base at Skutvika near the town center, which they used to search for herring.

There they established at wooden shed with a tin roof which acted as a hangar for two Hansa-Brandenburg W.33 aircraft.

[3] Due to harsh treatment the winter weather gave the aircraft, the air service terminated these operations the following year.

[4] Norwegian Air Lines carried out a trial postal route from Ålesund to Tromsø for four weeks in 1934, using a Junkers W 34 from 7 June to 3 August.

This was caused by the Phoney War and the need to station aircraft along the Møre og Romsdal coast to maintain Norwegian neutrality.

[8] Funding of 225,000 Norwegian krone was granted, which would include a hangar which could fit three Heinkel He 115 seaplanes.

It started a scheduled service to Oslo Airport, Fornebu three times a week in 1948, with stopovers in Molde and Kristiansund using the Widgeon.

They operated summer routes from Bergen to Trondheim and hand intermediate stops in Ålesund and Kristiansund, later also in Molde.

They were considered taken over by Widerøe and Solbergfly,[14] but the 1958 opening of Ålesund Airport, Vigra made this an implausible ordeal.

[15] A group of enthusiasts bought a Luscombe 8 Silvaire and two years later they established the airline Mørefly.

It took various general aviation contracted work, such as cargo transport, aerial photography and searching for herring steams.

[17] Operations included air ambulance, search and rescue, cargo transport, herring patrol, aerial photography and a scuba diver standby for the fishing fleet.