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.[1]
The airport was also one of the filming locations of the 2009 zombie movie Last of the Living.[citation needed]
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References
- ^ "Temperatures returning to normal for most". Met Service. 25 June 2015.
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