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NZCI Chatham Islands / Tuuta Airport UNK

  • Name
    Chatham Islands / Tuuta Airport
  • ICAO / IATA / GPS
    NZCI / CHT / NZCI
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    10:53 am (CHAST)
  • Municipality
    Te One
  • Coordinates
    43° 48′ 42″ N 176° 27′ 54″ E
  • Elevation
    39 ft (12 m MSL)

About Chatham Islands / Tuuta Airport

Chatham Islands / Tuuta Airport (IATA: CHT, ICAO: NZCI) is an airport 10.5 nautical miles (19.4 km; 12.1 mi) northeast of Waitangi Township on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand.

The airport, in part named in honour of the Chatham islander, Inia William Tuuta, who gifted the land for the airport, was completed in 1982 to replace a compacted grass airstrip at Te Hapupu that could only handle slow-flying Safe Air Bristol Freighter aircraft. The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy immediately started operating to the islands using the new airport until 1990, when Mount Cook Airlines and later Air Chathams took over air services to and from mainland New Zealand.

A small aviation museum is also based there, signifying the importance that aviation has played in developing the economic wealth of the island group.

Air Chathams operates services to Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington. The airport is the base of Air Chathams and usually houses two aircraft overnight.

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