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Christchurch Airport
Airport Directory » New Zealand » Christchurch » Christchurch AirportChristchurch International Airport (IATA: CHC, ICAO: NZCH) is the independent airport that assists Christchurch, New Zealand. It is turn up twelve km to the northwest of the town center, in the suburban area of Harewood, and was opened in 1953.
The primary landing track is orientated near perpendicular to Canterbury's Nor'due west fohn air current. For this ground, the secondary landing track is a cross-runway (at a right angle to the primary landing track), and is used during Nor'west wind by all aircraft up to and including Boeing 767s; United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster IIIs have also been known to use this landing track in extreme statuses.
Due to increasing rider figure, the airport has set about building on a new depot upgrade costing over $200 million. The new building is scheduled for pass completion in 2011, with some work such as destruction elongating until 2012.
Terminal Statistics
Domestic Parking places
- Jetways: five
- No Jetway: 15
International Parking places
- Jetways: eight
- No Jetway: two
Aircraft Movements
- 2007 - 135,058
- 2006 - 124,464
Passenger Movements
- 2007 - 1,654
- 2006 - 8,344
Military functioning
Since the closing of Wigram Air Force Base, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) ever wings to Christchurch International Airport when claimed to see the town. There are regular RNZAF voyages between the independent centers of New Zealand. Prior to the withdrawal of the air armed combat wing, the RNZAF attack aircraft were also seen at the airport.
With the development of Antarctic scientific hostile expedition, since the 1950s Christchurch Airport has been the ground for all Antarctic voyages functioned by the United States Air Force, Air National Guard and Royal New Zealand Air Force as division of Operation Deep Freeze. During the Antarctic winging season (which mostly functions from August to February), C-17 Globemaster III, C-130 Hercules and LC-130 Hercules aircraft are frequently seen on the Antarctic Apron northward of the independent rider depots. C-5 Galaxy aircraft also do the occasional visual aspect.
General air power functioning
There are several civil aviation organizations functioning from the airport. Garden City Helicopters functions from a ground adjacent to the airport. It functions a medivac service using fixed-wing aircraft and also functions the deliver eggbeater in Canterbury with a secondary helipad in Hagley Park adjacent to Christchurch Hospital (ICAO: NZJC). Christchurch Helicopters also functions from the western side of the field, next to Canterbury Aero Club, which back up a grass landing track parallel to the primary landing track.
Airport Redevelopment
Christchurch Airport is now undergoing an extensive enlargement labor. This set about in 2006 when building set about on a new multi-storey auto parkland construction which opened early 2007. The new construction furnishes 570 new covered auto parklands. Once it was complete, division of the being auto parkland area was closed to allow for the extra infinite claimed for the spread out step of the new depot construction. Construction of a new 45m tall control tower, positioned close to the new auto parkland construction, set about in October 2008.
In early 2009 work on the new depot will set about. The new depot will replace the being aging domestic depot and spread out the facilities of the much newer international depot. The new construction will include:
- a united check-in area servicing both domestic and international riders,
- a big landside retail and nutrient precinct,
- new domestic going and reaching lounges with raised retail installations,
- new domestic and spread out international baggage demand area ,
- new international usages reaches area ,
- 3 swing-style boarding entrances accessible from both the domestic help and international going area so aircraft do not take to modify entrances,
- a new cabbing lane integrated into the domestic aircraft parkland apron to allow for more efficient aircraft motilities,
- new manager and drop off installations that extinguish the depot service road in accord with new international ICAO guideposts.
The old domestic depot shall be wholly pulverised to make style for the new depot. All building is anticipated to be finished by mid 2011, with some work such as destruction elongating until 2012.
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