Nelson Airport

Nelson Airport (NSN/NZNS) is in Nelson, NZ, 5 m above sea level. It has 4 runways and the longest is 1,347 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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

Data

Codes
NSN · NZNS
City
Nelson
Country
NZ
Coordinates
-41.2967, 173.2243
Elevation
5 m · 17 ft
Time zone
Pacific/Auckland
Local time now
02:35
Airspace
Christchurch (Taranaki)
Departures observed
61 · 38 arrivals
Most seen destinations
WLG, CHC, AKL, PMR

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 (39)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
12:00ANZ074MAT76 · ZK-MVNAKL
12:14ANZ845MAT76 · ZK-MZBCHC
13:16ANZ072MAT76 · ZK-MVPAKL
13:19ZKRMB—NSN
13:42CGE72PA44 · ZK-NAHWLG
13:48ANZ314LDH8C · ZK-NEOWLG
14:19ZKKTY——
14:24SKL2B350 · ZK-SSHCHC
14:31ZKDJAP28R · ZK-DJA—
14:54ZKZDMC172 · ZK-ZDMNZEV
14:57ANZ076MAT76 · ZK-MVM—
14:59ANZ312LDH8C · ZK-NEBWLG
15:03ANZ843LDH8C · ZK-NEWCHC
15:07ZKRMB—NSN
15:38MDK03BE9L · ZK-MKGWLG
16:19ANZ524LDH8C · ZK-NEZWLG
16:20AMD5BK17 · ZK-HGWNZJB
17:12ZKZDMC172 · ZK-ZDMNSN
17:18SDA348C208 · ZK-SANWLG
17:44AMD9—NZJB
17:58ANZ853MAT76 · ZK-MVXCHC
18:00ANZ304LDH8C · ZK-NEOWLG
19:08ANZ080LDH8C · ZK-NEFAKL
19:14ANZ857MAT76 · ZK-MVFCHC
19:34SKL2B350 · ZK-SSHAKL
19:51ZKRMB——
19:52SDA350C208 · ZK-SANWLG
21:49AMD9——
06:09ANZ064LDH8C · ZK-NESAKL
06:23ANZ300LDH8C · ZK-NFIWLG
06:46ANZ841LDH8C · ZK-NEZCHC
08:25ANZ302LDH8C · ZK-NEHWLG
08:36ANZ060LDH8C · ZK-NEKAKL
09:23FDC25BE20 · ZK-FDTBHE
09:49ANZ842MAT76 · ZK-MZDCHC
09:56ANZ318LDH8C · ZK-NEDWLG
10:16ANZ088LDH8C · ZK-NEEAKL
10:57ANZ306LDH8C · ZK-NEJWLG
11:42SDA358C208 · ZK-SAA—

Landed (27)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
12:27ANZ323LDH8C · ZK-NEWWLG
13:02SKL2B350 · ZK-SSHAKL
13:41ANZ089MAT76 · ZK-MVMAKL
13:44ZKRMB—NSN
13:53ANZ769LDH8C · ZK-NEBCHC
14:12MDK03BE9L · ZK-MKGWLG
15:20AMD5BK17 · ZK-HGW—
15:34ANZ192LDH8C · ZK-NEZWLG
15:45ZKRMB—NSN
16:33FDC25BE20 · ZK-FDTBHE
16:49SDA347C208 · ZK-SANWLG
17:10ANZ591MAT76 · ZK-MVXCHC
17:21ANZ314LDH8C · ZK-NEOWLG
18:07ZKZDMC172 · ZK-ZDMNSN
18:14SKL2B350 · ZK-SSHCHC
18:19ANZ166LDH8C · ZK-NEFAKL
19:05ANZ895LDH8C · ZK-NFIWLG
19:23SDA349C208 · ZK-SANWLG
20:29ANZ736LDH8C · ZK-NEZWLG
21:19ANZ096LDH8C · ZK-NESAKL
07:50ANZ024LDH8C · ZK-NEKAKL
08:59ANZ363MAT76 · ZK-MZDCHC
09:13ANZ507LDH8C · ZK-NEDWLG
09:20ANZ229LDH8C · ZK-NEEAKL
10:08ANZ190LDH8C · ZK-NEJWLG
10:41FDC25BE20 · ZK-FDTBHE
11:15SDA274C208 · ZK-SAAWLG

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 (4)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
02/201,347 m · 4,420 ftasphalt42° · 222°
02L/20R731 m · 2,398 ftgrass42° · 222°
17/35600 m · 1,970 ftgrass187° · 7°
06/24526 m · 1,726 ftgrass83° · 263°

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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