It is located 1.5 km (0.8 NM)[2] northwest of the town of Brekstad,[7] in Ørland Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.

It is served by Air Norway, operated by North Flying, with a daily round trip to Oslo and a weekly service to Aalborg.

[1] Planning of an airfield at Ørland was started in January 1941 and the decision was announced by the Wehrmacht on 22 April 1941.

[12] Funding to upgrade the airport were dropped in 1946, but the air force continued to work with expansion proposals.

For Central Norway the air force therefore decided to upgrade Ørland's main runway to 2,700 by 50 meters (8,860 by 160 ft).

The initial investment program for the airport concluded in July 1954 with the completion of a fire station.

From 1958 to 1962 a direct cargo route with crabs and fish was established between Ørlandet and Stockholm, using a Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar.

[14] Braathens SAFE introduced a summer scheduled service from Ørland to Trondheim Airport, Værnes in 1967, but there were not sufficient passengers to reintroduce it the following year.

[19] In 2001, low-cost carrier Ryanair announced that they were considering to open a route from Ørland to London.

[22] Investments were estimated at NOK 17 million and public transport to the airport would be provided using fast ferries.

[26] In 2004, the Russian airline Aeroflot was considering flying fish from Ørland to Japan, but the plans were rejected by the Norwegian Air Force.

By April, the airport had received notice that 100% security control would still have to be introduced, costing the municipality 465,000 kr per year.

At the same time, Air Norway was still losing money, and applied to the municipality to not be charged landing fees at the airport.

It received a segregation of arriving and departing passengers, 100% security control and a general renovation of the building, although the capacity was not increased.

The reduction in ridership, along with a strengthening of the Danish krone in relation to the Norwegian, caused Air Norway to have lost NOK 100,000 by August 2009.

The operation costs the municipality NOK 680,000 per year,[18] although Air Norway is exempt from paying any airport taxes.