Chatham Islands/Tuuta Airport
Chatham Islands / Tuuta Airport is an airport 10.5 nautical miles northeast of Waitangi township on Chatham Island, New Zealand. The airport, in part named in honour of Inia William Tuuta, the Chatham Islander who donated the land for the airport, was completed in 1982 to replace a compacted grass airstrip at Te Hapupu that could only handle slow-flying Safe Air Bristol Freighter aircraft.
- Aerodrome
- …lies at an elevation of 13 metres (43 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code CHT
- …has the ICAO airport code NZCI
- …is operated by Chatham Islands Airport Limited
- Description: airport in New Zealand
- Also known as“Chatham Is/Tuuta Airport”“CHT”“Inia William Tuuta Airport”“Inia William Tuuta Memorial Airport”“NZCI”
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Chatham Islands/Tuuta Airport
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Latitude
-43.81382° or 43° 48′ 50″ south
Longitude
-176.46492° or 176° 27′ 54″ west
UN/LOCODE
NZ CHT
Open location code
42855GPP+F2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway = aerodrome
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Chatham Islands/Tuuta Airport” goes by many names.
Chatham IslandCebuano
Chatham Island (tugpahanan)Cebuano
圖塔機場Chinese
查塔姆群岛机场Chinese
查塔姆群島機場Chinese
CHTIndonesian
NZCIIndonesian
Chatham Islands / Tuuta 空港Japanese
チャタム諸島・トゥーナ空港Japanese
ツウナ空港Japanese
Lapangan Terbang Chatham Is/TuutaMalay
فرودگاه چتم ایلند/توتاPersian
Tuuta AirportPolish
Aeroportul Chatham Islands / TuutaRomanian
Фурудгоҳи чтм оилнд тутоTajik
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