Pukaki Airport

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Pukaki Airport
IATA: TWZICAO: NZUK
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Pukaki Airport Authority
Location Twizel, New Zealand
Elevation AMSL 1,575 ft / 480 m
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Website http://www.airportpukaki.co.nz
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
33/15 3,550 1,082 asphalt
07/25 1,804 550 grass

Pukaki Airport (IATA: TWZICAO: 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 about 284 km from Christchurch.

The airport contains a fully automated Met Service weather station, several hangars, and a BP petrol system containing 20,000 litres of JetA1 and 15,000 litres of Avgas fuel for planes to refuel with a BP Fuel Card.

Resident operators at Pukaki Airport include Aviation Adventures Ltd (trading as Red Cat Biplane Flights), The Helicopter Line and Otago Airspread.

Air Safaris, based in Tekapo, operates scenic charter flights from this airport.

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

Was one of the filming locations of the Zombie movie Last of the Living

File:Pukaki Airport.jpg
View of the Pukaki Airport in 2014

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