A Norwegian P-8 is flying here. But only in a year will it replace the old surveillance planes.

Finally, Norwegian P-8 surveillance aircraft are flying. But why does it take Norway over a year to get the planes ready for missions, when the British managed it in 56 days?

It was a day of joy at Evenes airport near Harstad. A Norwegian surveillance aircraft of the type P-8 Poseidon could take off.

It happened 14 weeks after the first of three such planes arrived in Norway from the USA, and over two months after the Air Force hoped to be able to start the flights on Norwegian soil.