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Wellington International Airport [4] (IATA: WLG, ICAO: NZWN) — formerly known as Rongotai Aerodrome or Rongotai Airport, or simply Wellington Airport — is an international airport located in the suburb of Rongotai in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. It lies 5.5 km (3.0 nmi; 3.4 mi) south-east from the city centre.
The hill was flattened during construction of Wellington Airport from the 1930s to the 1950s, with spoil used for reclamation in Lyall Bay and for other road works. [6] [7] [8] Some houses at the northern end of Moa Point were relocated or removed and the promontory that existed there is now under the airport.
The wharf is currently used for receiving bulk aviation fuel for Wellington Airport. [52] Fuel is piped from the wharf to storage tanks in Miramar, and then to the airport. The 2019 Wellington Lifelines Project reported that the wharf and the fuel infrastructure were reaching the end of their design lives, and were both vulnerable in an earthquake.
The main criterion for the candidate aircraft was the ability to safely fly in and out of Wellington Airport's unique right-hand inner harbour circuit. When NAC management chose the new Boeing aircraft over the already proven BAC 1-11, [ 3 ] the pro-British-leaning National Government promptly turned down the request for precious funds and told ...
Origin Pacific Airways was established by Robert Inglis and Nicki Smith in 1996 and started operations in April 1997. [1] Inglis and Smith had previously established Air Nelson which they subsequently sold to Air New Zealand.
Ohakea functions as an alternate airport for heavy civilian aircraft, such as the Boeing 787 and Boeing 777, if they are unable to land at Auckland or Christchurch. This is mainly due to Ohakea's runway 09/27 being the third-longest in New Zealand and the airport's strategic location between the two airports (359 km (223 mi) from Auckland and ...
Until about the 15th century, the Rongotai isthmus was probably a shallow channel known as Te Awa a Tia. The only part of the current isthmus above water was the small hill which now has the airport control tower on it; the Miramar Peninsula was an island known as Te Motu Kairangi at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
In 1949, it was New Zealand's busiest airport and helped to stimulate growth on the Kāpiti Coast. The Wellington International Airport was opened in 1959 and Paraparaumu Airport never regained its status, with some of its land sold for residential development in the 1990s and 2000s. [citation needed]