Woodbourne Airport

Woodbourne Airport
Summary
Airport type Public and Military
Operator Marlborough Airport Ltd
Serves Blenheim, New Zealand
Location State Highway 6, Blenheim, New Zealand
Elevation AMSL 33 m / 109 ft
Coordinates 41°31′06″S 173°52′13″E / 41.51833°S 173.87028°E / -41.51833; 173.87028
Website www.marlboroughairport.co.nz
Map
BHE

Location of airport in Marlborough

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
06R/24L 1,425 4,675 Bitumen
06L/24R 1,425 4,675 Grass
10/28 1,182 3,878 Grass
Statistics (2014[1][2])
Passenger throughput 241,173
Landings 9,399
Aircraft movements (2010) 22,829

Woodbourne Airport (IATA: BHE, ICAO: NZWB) trading as Marlborough Airport is a small, controlled airport located 3 nautical miles (8 km) west of Blenheim in the Marlborough region of New Zealand, on State Highway Six, Middle Renwick Road. It is co-located with RNZAF Base Woodbourne in the Wairau Valley on the north-eastern corner of the South Island of New Zealand. The airport has a single terminal and 7 tarmac gates.

Marlborough Airport terminal building in 2012
Air National Jetstream 32 on the tarmac at Blenheim
RNZAF Boeing 727-100QC seen here at Blenheim, this is now used as an engineering training aid.


History

Woodbourne was one of the first airports in New Zealand. Today it is one of the few remaining air force bases (RNZAF Base Woodbourne); with general maintenance and initial training conducted there.

It also serves as the civil airport for Blenheim. Runway 06R/24L was sealed for Fokker Friendships in 1961, and was one of the first regional airports in the country to take turboprop aircraft.

Today it has more frequent operations, with Air New Zealand's regional subsidiary Air Nelson using Bombardier Q300 and Mount Cook Airlines using ATR 72-600 aircraft. The busiest route from Blenheim remains across the Cook Strait to Wellington, 80 km to the north-east; flights take only 25 minutes. Nightly Airwork flights, operated by Fokker Friendship aircraft carry post from the North Island. Air2there operates from Nelson and Kapiti Coast. Sounds Air operates a Cessna Caravan and Pilatus PC 12 from Wellington, Napier, Kapiti Coast and Christchurch.

The terminal building was renovated in 2014/15 to cope with growing passenger demand and increased use by larger aircraft types. The redevelopment included an extension of the apron along with new check-in, baggage clam facilities and extension of the departure lounge.[3]

The airport was the 13th busiest in New Zealand during 2015, based on passenger numbers.


Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Air New Zealand Link
operated by Air Nelson 		Auckland, Wellington
Air2there Kapiti Coast, Nelson
Sounds Air Christchurch,[4] Kaikoura[5] Kapiti Coast, Napier,[6] Wellington[7]
Tauck Tours
operated by Alliance Airlines[8] 		Charter: Te Anau[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Blenheim Airport". Marlboroughairport.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  2. ↑ "Domestic and International Aircraft Movements By Calendar Year" (PDF). Airways.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
  3. ↑ Chloe Winter (2015-11-29). "Marlborough Airport expansion finished". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  4. ↑ "Sounds Air to replace Air NZ on Christchurch to Blenheim route". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  5. ↑ "Sounds Air starts special flights to quake-hit Kaikoura". Newshub. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Wine flights on track for November". Stuff. The Marlborough Express.
  7. ↑ "Timetable" (PDF). Dropbox.com. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
  8. ↑ "Tauck Tours using an Australian Fokker 50 in New Zealand". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  9. ↑ "Spotlight on New Zealand". Tauck.co.nz. Retrieved 18 April 2015.

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