 The regional airports in Lofoten and Vesterålen opened in 1972, with the Værøy and Røst service being taken over by Widerøe on 1 September 1973.As they did not want to operate helicopters, they subcontracted the operations to Helilift.The service operated twice per day on weekdays and once per day in the weekends, using two sixteen-seat Sikorsky S-58Ts.