Ardmore Airport

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Ardmore Airport (IATA: AMZ, ICAO: NZAR) is an airport 3 NM (5.5 km) southeast of Manurewa in Auckland, New Zealand.

Ardmore Airport is one of New Zealand's busiest general aviation airfields. Traffic mainly consists of small private aircraft and the classic aircraft of the New Zealand Warbirds Association, which is based there.

Businesses in the airfield include several flying schools, maintenance, fuel and aircraft restoration. Buildings are situated around Aprons to the North, West, South, and Southeast. A control tower remains in the center of the field, but this is no longer used for air traffic control.

Ardmore Airport is now used as a UNICOM service.

Ardmore has six vectors 03/21 sealed runway, 03/21 grass runway and 07/25 grass runway. There used to be a 07/25 sealed runway however this is no longer used and is now a taxiway (Taxiway Juliet).

The airfield has a circuit height of 1,100 ft (340 m) for fixed-wing aircraft, 800 ft (240 m) for helicopters. The circuit for runway 03/07 is right hand while that of runway 21/25 is a left hand circuit.

The airfield is serviced by two R-NAV (GPS) arrivals, one for each runway (03 and 21). The airport itself is uncontrolled and located within a Mandatory Broadcast Zone (MBZ). This airspace is monitored by the Ardmore Unicom service who operate during daylight hours. The aerodrome is located to the south east of Auckland International Airport airspace.

Sunair operates commercial flight services from this Airport to Claris and Whitianga.