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Tauranga Airport
Airport Directory » New Zealand » Tauranga » Tauranga AirportAirport information for Tauranga AirportCountry: New ZealandLocation: Tauranga Coordinates: 37.40.00S / 176.12.00E IATA Code: TRG Timezone: GMT +12 Direct flights form Tauranga Airport Direct flights to Tauranga Airport Find connecting flights to Tauranga Airport Find connecting flights from Tauranga Airport |
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Tauranga Airport (IATA: TRG, ICAO: NZTG) is a regional airport 2NM to the north-east of Tauranga town in the Bay of Plenty on the North Island of New Zealand.
Scheduled voyages are functioned by Eagle Airways and Air Nelson, parts of Air New Zealand, using Raytheon Beechcraft 1900D and Dash 8 Q-300 aircraft severally.
A figure of little charter and preparation functioning are also found here alongside with care supplier and the Tauranga Aero Club. Recently a museum has been opened at the airport. The are also little Tandem skydiving and Gliding functioning found here.
History
Tauranga Airport had its 1st commercial service in 1946, having antecedently been used as a train station for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. In 1967, building set about on a 1,280 meter landing track, a control tower, and a rider depot, finished the coming after yr. The airport is owned by the Tauranga City Council. The airport was late renovated and a running across appartment and Koru Club regional lounge set up above the departure lounge.
Because of the intensive development of the Tauranga district, the airport has currently been hemmed in by residential and industrial development. Although the airport is able to easy provide for the occasional Boeing 737 charter service, air traffic comptrollers have to co-ordinate with Tauranga Port authorization to see the port's container stretch out's arms are take down if reaches are in a westerly way due to that aircraft's lower draw close vectors.
Recently a survey into the feasibleness of a new airport at Paengaroa was brought forth but Tauranga Airport is yet to gain full operational capacity.
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