Vårbyfjärden hangar, hangar in Huddinge Municipality, Sweden

Vårbyfjärden hangar is a rectangular aircraft storage building by the water in Huddinge Municipality, Sweden. It has stiff concrete walls, a metal roof, a wide door for airplanes, and a side facing the bay with curved windows and a small dock.

Johan Ernst Johansson, a certified pilot, bought a waterfront plot on Vårbackavägen in 1926 and had architect Karl Nilsson design the hangar, approved by Huddinge Municipality in 1935. He then travelled to the USA and bought a Fairchild 24 seaplane, registered SE-AIR, which he flew home himself. The Swedish Air Force requisitioned the plane during the Second World War as Tp 6912; it was sold to Norrland after the war, crashed in 1950 and was scrapped in 1951. In the 1950s the hangar housed a seaplane flying school with instructor Gunnar Degramo, and activity ended with Johansson's death in 1975.

The old hangar and the remains of Johansson's house and windmill pole form a small cluster of structures that show how one person built a private place for seaplanes. Today the site feels quietly neglected, with only the concrete shell and the old dock left to suggest that someone once brought aircraft in from the lake.

You can walk around the outside and see the old concrete walls, the metal roof, and the dock area from the shore. The building itself stays closed, so plan to explore the nearby water and paths rather than expecting to go inside.

A Fairchild 24 seaplane bought by Johansson was taken by the Swedish Air Force during the Second World War, then returned and later sold north to Norrland before crashing in 1950. Only a few traces of that flying life remain today: the hangar, the house, and a tall windmill pole.