Comments for the Canterbury Region, New Zealand

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Comments 1 to 20 of 20 for the Canterbury Region, New Zealand (visit the main airport page to leave a new comment):

Sun, 24 Jul 2011

Sun, 24 Jul 2011
 

Hi, is the airport closed to international arrivals today? Due snow?

Sat, 09 Jul 2011

Reply to @Ozguy: Thanx very much, Ozguy!

Fri, 25 Jun 2010

Fri, 25 Jun 2010
 

Reply to @rdsair: very sad news.

Fri, 02 Apr 2010

Fri, 02 Apr 2010
 

The Former Wigram RZNAF Air Force Base or Wigram Airport is Closed

Fri, 13 Nov 2009

Fri, 13 Nov 2009
 

1800 ft elevation

You need permission to operate at this strip

Wed, 12 Aug 2009

Wed, 12 Aug 2009
 

600m in length

outstanding airstrip

Tue, 05 May 2009

A great place to land for a snack break under the eye of Mount Cook

An awesome airport for seeing lots of USAF aircraft involved in Operation Deep Freeze regular visitors throughout summer are C-17, C-5 and C-130.

What used to be a little aerodrome has now got a lot bigger. A variety of aircraft from warbirds to helicopters operate from this airport daily.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008

They will cater for you up there.

My route took us from CHC to the Westcoast, past the glaciers and Mt Cook to this nice place. You need to ring ahead.

Fri, 17 Oct 2008

Thanks SkydivingNZ for permission for a quick in-and-out on your strip.

Flew ZK-SBK (Cessna 172-P) into here on 28 Sep 2008.

Thu, 02 Oct 2008

They are building the first airport viallage in the South Island of NZ here.

Thu, 17 Jul 2008

First trip here for me was on a cross country trip for my PPL on 6 Feb 2003 in a Piper Cherokee PA-28-140, ZK-CUY.

It was a dual trip with Anushka Painter. Corrie and Jordan came along for the ride.

I remember there being an onshore breeze requiring a good crosswind landing - the seal is only 10m wide.

Sat, 15 Mar 2008

A sealed and grass strip conveniently close to Twizel, and great little town in the Mackenzie Basin. My first landing here was in an Robin Alpha 2160 ZK-RBN on 30 December 2003, a few days after getting my rating for this aircraft. My father was my passenger, and we enjoyed calm and clear weather on a great cross country outing from our home base of the Canterbury Aero Club at Christchurch. We carried on from Pukaki to Omarama airfield (NZOU), then down the Waitaki Valley for a stop at Timaru Airport (NZTU), and then home to Christchurch.

Tue, 07 Aug 2007

Tue, 07 Aug 2007
 

Actually, just remembered that I made a number of dual flights from Wigram in an RNZAF Airtrainer way back in 1982, but they were all dual, so don't really count.

Tue, 07 Aug 2007
 

First landing here late 2006 - precautionary landing after experiencing a total electrical failure.

Winter 05 in an Archer

I first landed here in ZK-RBN on 31 Dec 05.

Sun, 29 Jul 2007

A good airport in a lovely city.

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