Pukaki Airport

Pukaki Airport (IATA: TWZ, ICAO: NZUK) is a small airport in the Mackenzie District of the South Island of New Zealand. The airport is located about 3 km North from the township of Twizel and is 284 km from Christchurch.

Pukaki Airport
Pukaki Airport in 2014
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorPukaki Airport Authority
LocationTwizel, New Zealand
Elevation AMSL1,575 ft / 480 m
Coordinates44°14′13″S 170°7′8″E
Websitehttp://www.airportpukaki.co.nz
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
33/15 3,550 1,082 asphalt
07/25 1,804 550 grass

The airport contains a fully automated Met Service weather station, thirteen hangars, and fuel supplies.

Resident operators offer charter and scenic flights from the aerodrome.

A record low temperature was set at Pukaki Airport of -19.8 °C on the morning of 23 June 2015.[1]

The airport was also one of the filming locations of the 2009 zombie movie Last of the Living.

See also

References

  1. "Temperatures returning to normal for most". Met Service. 25 June 2015.



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