New Plymouth Airport

New Plymouth Airport (NPL/NZNP) is in New Plymouth, NZ, 30 m above sea level. It has 3 runways and the longest is 1,310 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

05L23R05R23L1432
Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
NPL · NZNP
City
New Plymouth
Country
NZ
Coordinates
-39.0086, 174.1790
Elevation
30 m · 97 ft
Time zone
Pacific/Auckland
Local time now
01:18
Airspace
Christchurch (Taranaki)
Departures observed
24 · 22 arrivals
Most seen destinations
AKL, WLG, CHC, HLZ

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (13)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
12:00ANZ038LDH8C · ZK-NEUAKL
15:24ANZ041MAT76 · ZK-MVKAKL
15:48SKL4BE20 · ZK-WPNHLZ
16:23ANZ796LDH8C · ZK-NEJWLG
16:54ANZ764LDH8C · ZK-NEMCHC
17:41CFL01EC45 · ZK-IXNHLZ
18:58ANZ047MAT76 · ZK-MVCAKL
06:38ANZ049MAT76 · ZK-MVPAKL
06:57ANZ798LDH8C · ZK-NEOWLG
08:05ANZ031MAT76 · ZK-MVCAKL
10:00ANZ035MAT76 · ZK-MZGAKL
10:26ANZ792LDH8C · ZK-NEOWLG
10:54ANZ768LDH8C · ZK-NEZ

Landed (12)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
14:09SKL4BE20 · ZK-WPNHLZ
14:43ANZ012MAT76 · ZK-MVKAKL
15:45ANZ796LDH8C · ZK-NEJWLG
16:18ANZ764LDH8C · ZK-NEMCHC
18:10SKL4BE20 · ZK-WPNHLZ
18:16ANZ022MAT76 · ZK-MVCAKL
20:15ANZ304LDH8C · ZK-NEOWLG
20:42ANZ210MAT76 · ZK-MVPAKL
07:28ANZ050MAT76 · ZK-MVCAKL
09:15ANZ002MAT76 · ZK-MZGAKL
09:50ANZ797LDH8C · ZK-NEOWLG
09:57ANZ841LDH8C · ZK-NEZCHC

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (3)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
05L/23R1,310 m · 4,298 ftasphalt66° · 246°
14/321,200 m · 3,937 ftgrass157° · 337°
05R/23L1,000 m · 3,281 ftgrass66° · 246°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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And this on board

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