Woodbourne Airport

Woodbourne Airport
IATA: BHE – ICAO: NZWB BHE Location of airport in Marlborough
Summary
Airport type	Public and Military
Operator	Marlborough Airport Ltd
Serves	Blenheim, New Zealand
Location	State Highway 6, Blenheim, New Zealand
Elevation AMSL	33 m / 109 ft
Coordinates	41°31′06″S 173°52′13″E / 41.51833°S 173.87028°E
Website	www.marlboroughairport.co.nz
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 06R/24L 1,425 4,675 Bitumen 06L/24R 1,425 4,675 Grass 10/28 1,182 3,878 Grass
Statistics (2014[1][2])
Passenger throughput 241,173 Landings 9,399 Aircraft movements (2010) 22,829

Woodbourne Airport (IATA: BHE, ICAO: NZWB) trading as Marlborough Airport is a small, controlled airport located 3 nautical miles (8 km) west of Blenheim in the Marlborough region of New Zealand, on State Highway Six, Middle Renwick Road. It is co-located with RNZAF Base Woodbourne in the Wairau Valley on the north-eastern corner of the South Island of New Zealand. The airport has a single terminal and 7 tarmac gates.

History

Woodbourne was one of the first airports in New Zealand. Today it is one of the few remaining air force bases (RNZAF Base Woodbourne); with general maintenance and initial training conducted there.

It also serves as the civil airport for Blenheim. Runway 06R/24L was sealed for Fokker Friendships in 1961, and was one of the first regional airports in the country to take turboprop aircraft.

Today it has more frequent operations, with Air New Zealand's regional subsidiary Eagle Airways using Beechcraft 1900, Air Nelson using Bombardier Q300 and Mount Cook Airlines using ATR 72-600 aircraft. The busiest route from Blenheim remains across the Cook Strait to Wellington, 80 km to the north-east; flights take only 25 minutes. Nightly Air Post flights operated by Fokker Friendship aircraft carry post from the North Island. Air2there operates from Nelson and Kapiti Coast. Sounds Air operates a Cessna Caravan and Pilatus PC 12 from Wellington, Napier and Kapiti Coast

The terminal building was renovated in 2014/15 to cope with growing passenger demand and increased use by larger aircraft types. The redevelopment included an extension of the apron along with new check-in, baggage clam facilities and extension of the departure lounge.^[3]

The airport was the 13th busiest in New Zealand during 2015, based on passenger numbers.

Marlborough Airport terminal building in 2012

Air National Jetstream 32 on the tarmac at Blenheim

RNZAF Boeing 727-200 seen here at Blenheim, this is now on static display

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations
Air New Zealand Link operated by Air Nelson	Auckland, Christchurch ,Wellington
Air New Zealand Link operated by Mount Cook Airline	Auckland (ends 30 October 2016)[4]
Air2there	Kapiti Coast, Nelson
Sounds Air	Kapiti Coast, Napier,[5] Wellington[6]
Tauck Tours operated by Alliance Airlines[7]	Charter: Te Anau[8]

Cargo

Airlines	Destinations
Airwork operated for New Zealand Post	Auckland, Christchurch

See also

• List of airports in New Zealand
• List of airlines of New Zealand
• Transport in New Zealand

References

1. "Blenheim Airport". Marlboroughairport.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
2. "Domestic and International Aircraft Movements By Calendar Year" (PDF). Airways.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
3. Chloe Winter (2015-11-29). "Marlborough Airport expansion finished". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
4. "Air New Zealand Domestic Network Changes from July 2016". airlineroute. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
5. "Wine flights on track for November". Stuff. The Marlborough Express.
6. "Timetable" (PDF). Dropbox.com. Retrieved 2015-05-14.
7. "Tauck Tours using an Australian Fokker 50 in New Zealand". Retrieved 11 February 2015.
8. "Spotlight on New Zealand". Tauck.co.nz. Retrieved 18 April 2015.

External links

• Airport information for NZWB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• Accident history for BHE / NZWB at Aviation Safety Network
• New Zealand AIP 4 AD