- Tauranga Airport
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Tauranga Airport 
IATA: TRG – ICAO: NZTG Location of airport in North Island
TRGSummary Airport type Public Operator Tauranga Airport Authority Location Tauranga Elevation AMSL 13 ft / 4 m Coordinates 37°40′19″S 176°11′46″E / 37.67194°S 176.19611°E Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 07/25 5,988 1,825 Asphalt 07/25 3,280 1,000 Grass 02/22 2,100 640 Grass 16/34 2,296 700 Grass Tauranga Airport (IATA: TRG, ICAO: NZTG) is a regional airport 2NM to the north east of Tauranga city in the Bay of Plenty on the North Island of New Zealand.
Scheduled flights are operated by Eagle Airways and Air Nelson, divisions of Air New Zealand, using Raytheon Beechcraft 1900D and De Havilland Dash 8 Q-300 aircraft respectively.
Tauranga airport is the fifth busiest airport in New Zealand in terms of aircraft movements, with 86,935 movements during 2010. This places it just behind Hamilton airport.[1]
A number of small charter and training operations are also based here along with maintenance providers, Tauranga Aero Club and Bayflight Aviation. The popular Classic Flyers Museum and cafe is also based at the Airport. There are also small Tandem skydiving and Gliding operations based here.
Tauranga Airport is the current location for the Sportavex biennial fly-in and airshow.
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History
Tauranga Airport was acquired by the NZ Government from the traditional Maori land owners during World War 2 for defensive purposes. However, the Government failed to return it to them at the conclusion of the war, as it had also done in Raglan. The site provided an important link to burial grounds. Ownership has being contested by the traditional owners with the Waitangi Tribunal.[2]
Tauranga Airport received its first commercial service in 1946, having previously been used as a training station for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. In 1967, construction began on a 1,280 metre runway, a control tower, and a passenger terminal, completed the following year. The airport is owned by the Tauranga City Council. The airport was recently refurbished and a meeting room and Koru Club regional lounge installed above the departure lounge.
Because of the intensive growth of the Tauranga region, the airport has now been hemmed in by residential and industrial development. Although the airport can easily cater for the occasional Boeing 737 charter service, air traffic controllers have to co-ordinate with Tauranga Port authority to insure the port's container crane's arms are lowered if arrivals are in a westerly direction due to that aircraft's lower approach vectors.
The airport is currently undergoing a expansion of the terminal. A new 830sqm extension of the terminal impacts on check in, baggage claim and baggage make up.
Recently a study into the feasibility of a new airport at Paengaroa was produced but Tauranga Airport is yet to reach full operational capacity.
Facilities
Taxi stand, Rental car offices, Cafe, Internet access, Public telephones, Toilets, Baby change, Wheelchair access, Baggage carousel and Koru Lounge.
Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Air New Zealand operated by Air Nelson Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch Air New Zealand operated by Eagle Airways Auckland Sunair Gisborne, Kerikeri, Napier, Palmerston North, Whangarei Operational information
Vans VR 6A landing on sealed runway 07R
- Airfield elevation is 13 ft AMSL
- Runway 07/25, 1825 x 45 metres sealed
- Runway 07/25, 1000 x 60 metres grass, currently only 700m as per NOTAM
- Runway 04/22, 640 x 60 metres grass
- Runway 16/34, 700 x 45 metres grass
- Runway lighting available on runway 07/25 seal
- Pavement Strength PCN 35
- Circuit: RWY 04/07/34 - right hand RWY 16/22/25 - left hand
- Circuit Height: 1000 ft AMSL
Tauranga Airport is located within a Control Zone which is controlled by Tauranga Tower.
Sources
External links
Airports in the Bay of Plenty Region
Rotorua International Airport · Tauranga Airport · Whakatane Airport
Categories:- Airports in New Zealand
- Tauranga
- Buildings and structures in Tauranga
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