Naviair is a state-owned company

Government-owned corporation

A government-owned corporation, state-owned company, state-owned entity, state enterprise, publicly owned corporation, government business enterprise, or parastatal is a legal entity created by a government to undertake commercial activities on behalf of an owner government...

 in Denmark

Denmark

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 under the Ministry of Transport that provides air traffic service, including area control service for the Danish airspace and approach control for airports in Copenhagen, Roskilde, Aalborg, Tirstrup, Billund, Esbjerg, and Ronne. It provides flight information service

Flight Information Service

A flight information service is a form of air traffic service which is available to any aircraft within a flight information region , as agreed internationally by ICAO....

 in the lower airspace of Greenland and the Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

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. It provides flight information service for visual flight rules

Visual flight rules

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 and for helicopters.

Naviair was created on January 1, 2001, through a split of the Danish Civil Aviation

Civil aviation

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 Administration (Statens Luftfartsvæsen) into a regulator (SLV

Statens Luftfartsvæsen

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) and an ANS provider (Naviair).

The chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

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 is Morten Dambæk.