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Name
Pukaki Airport
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ICAO / IATA / GPS
NZUK / TWZ / NZUK
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- Region
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Timezone
10:43 am (NZST)
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Municipality
Twitzel
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Coordinates
44° 14′ 6″ N 170° 7′ 4″ E
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Elevation
1’575 ft (480 m MSL)
About Pukaki Airport
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.
The airport was also one of the filming locations of the 2009 zombie movie Last of the Living.
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