Glentanner Aerodrome

Glentanner Aerodrome
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorMr R K Ivey, Glentanner Station
LocationLake Pukaki
Elevation AMSL1,824 ft / 556 m
Coordinates43°54′24″S 170°07′42″E / 43.90667°S 170.12833°E / -43.90667; 170.12833
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
15/33 3,166 965 Asphalt

Glentanner Aerodrome (IATA: GTN, ICAO: NZGT) is an aerodrome located at the north west end of Lake Pukaki in New Zealand. From 1987 onwards to their demise Newmans Air operated Dash-7 aircraft into Glentanner from Christchurch and Queenstown.

Formerly used as a standby airport for Mount Cook Airlines if the Mount Cook Airport was closed due to inclement weather. Paved and capable of handling aircraft up to Hawker Siddeley HS748 size. A small bus transfer terminal with a couple of baggage trolleys were based at the strip.[1]

Air Safaris operates sightseeing flights at this aerodrome.

Dawn Aerospace uses Glentanner for test flights of their Aurora suborbital spaceplane with flights beginning in 2021.[2]

  1. ^ History of Mt Cook Airlines/pub1990
  2. ^ Bradley, Grant (25 August 2021). "Watch: Rocket Lab rival runs test flights near Aoraki/Mt Cook". NZ Herald. Retrieved 6 August 2024.