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Anden81: Unfortunately gz and the surroundings are a constructionsite at the moment and i don't see any possibilitys to place a new canister nearby for a long time.
And with the fact that i've already moved it once i have decided to let this mystery go to rest.
I'm sorry for those who solved it but not logged it yet.
The final cache for this series is still active and you need to solve this one to get the hint in the checker.

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Hidden : 8/3/2011
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Update 2017-01-01: If you solved it before this date add 34 to the north and 102 to the east. The hint for GC2Y022 are now included in the checker.
A fairly easy mystery located somewhere in the area of the airport.
As always, the above coordinates are not right.

Welcome to Stockholm Arlanda Airport. Swedens largest airport with almost 17 million passengers and around 190.000 start and landings yearly.

IATA code: ARN
ICAO code: Essa

Now to the coordinates:

Arlanda have three start and landing runways namned 1, 2 and 3. But they are also named something else, in what direction they are.

If you look at the runway directions you will get four different numbers, lets name them 0AA, 0BB, CCC and DDD.
Let AA be the lowest number and DDD the biggest.

The height of the Air Traffic Control Tower gives you EE

 

The Math:

For north 59° 38.xxx

xxx=DDD*3+CCC+24

 

And east 017° 56.yyy

yyy=BB*4+EE*6

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jvxvcrqvn vf lbhe sevraq, gur ehajnl ahzoref raqf jvgu n mreb. Zntargvp

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)