Visby 2 highway strip

57°36'35"N 018°20'28"E

Runway: 15/33 - 2000meters/0000feet - asphalt

Visby 2 highway strip (also known as Folingbo highway strip) was a dispersed emergency (wartime) airfield on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea.
The airfield was built during the BAS-60 upgrade of Visby Airport in 1968. It consisted of a 2 kilometer stretch of straight and widened road southeast of Visby town. It also featured 3 aircraft parkings: one on the south side, and two in a bend on the north side.
Visby and its highway strips were adapted for use by J37 Viggens in the mid 1970s. The Swedish defence stance during the Cold War required all highway strips to be used on a regular basis. I could not find any details about this airstrip however.


No photos of the airfield while in use have been located

Visby was upgraded to BAS-90 airfield in 1992. Two years later the F13 Wing from Bråvalla ended its presence at Visby. The Visby Highway strips were likely withdrawn from use around the same time. They are still present however, ready to be reactivated should the need arise.


The highway strip in 2006 (Google Earth)


This May 2016 photo demonstrates how well camouflaged the dispersed runways are: they look like just like any other stretch of road. You are looking down the runway towards the southeast (Magnus Emanuelsson).

Many thanks to Per Jelkne for pointing out this airfield!