Pukaki Airport

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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 about 284 km from Christchurch.

The airport contains a fully automated Met Service weather station, eight 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. Aviation Adventures offers scenic flights in a three-seat open-cockpit Grumman Ag-Cat biplane and a Cessna 172 over the alpine lakes and glaciers of Aoraki Mount Cook and Westland National Parks.

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

The airport resides at an elevation of 1,575 ft (480 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 33/15 with asphalt surface measuring 3,550 feet (1,082 m) in length. There is another grass runway designated 07/25 measuring 1,804 feet (550 m) in length.

Contact Information

Address: State Highway 8, Pukaki
Tel: 0800 685 9010
Fax:+64 (3) 685 8533