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Pukaki Airport

Coordinates: 44°14′13″S 170°7′8″E / 44.23694°S 170.11889°E / -44.23694; 170.11889
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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 / 44.23694°S 170.11889°E / -44.23694; 170.11889
Websitehttp://www.airportpukaki.co.nz
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
33/15 3,550 1,082 asphalt
07/25 1,804 550 grass

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.

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.[citation needed]

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References

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