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NZAPTUO

Taupo Airport

Taupo, New Zealand

Elevation
1,335 ft
Runways
2
Longest
4,547 ft
Position
-38.740, 176.084
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Warning: pilot use only. For flight simulation use only. This information is not maintained to any aeronautical standard and must never be used for real world navigation or flight planning.

The field

17351028N5 km
2 runways. Point at one for its dimensions.
North up, drawn to scale from published runway threshold positions.
NZRONZAPN
1 airfield in range. Point at one for its bearing.
  • NZRO39
Rings at 15, 30 and 50 nm. 1 other airfield in range, at true bearing. Where two sit close together only the nearer one is labelled.

By the numbers

  • 6,745 ft

    Runway, all told

    1.1 nm of pavement across 2 runways

  • 18th

    Longest in New Zealand

    of 38 airfields in the country

  • 4150th

    Longest in the world

    of 4,677 with a measured runway

  • 4th

    Highest in New Zealand

    1,335 ft above sea level

  • 39 nm

    Nearest airfield

    NZRO, bearing 016

  • Asphalt, Grass

    Surface

    1 of 2 lit

Current weather

METAR, live from NOAA aviation weather

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Runways

RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLit
17/354,547 ft98 ftAsphaltYes
10/282,198 ft105 ftGrassNo

Frequencies

  • AFISCHRISTCHURCH FIS123.600
  • AWIBAWIB125.200

Real world frequencies, listed for reference. What is actually staffed on the network appears on the map and in the client.

Fly from here

  • Plan a leg out of NZAP
  • NZAP to NZRO, the nearest field

On the network

Nothing has been run at NZAP yet. When an event uses this field it appears here, with what was flown and who worked it.

What is on the calendar

Nearby airfields

  • NZRORotorua Regional Airport39 nm
  • NZNRHawke's Bay Airport57 nm
  • NZWKWhakatāne Airport63 nm
  • NZHNHamilton International Airport63 nm
  • NZWOWairoa Airport64 nm
  • NZTGTauranga Airport64 nm

Elsewhere

  • Wikipedia

Airport, runway and frequency data from OurAirports, which is public domain. Weather from NOAA aviation weather.