Timaru Airport

Timaru Airport (TIU/NZTU) is in NZ, NZ, 27 m above sea level. It has 3 runways and the longest is 1,280 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
TIU · NZTU
City
Country
NZ
Coordinates
-44.3028, 171.2250
Elevation
27 m · 89 ft
Time zone
Pacific/Auckland
Local time now
02:27
Airspace
Christchurch (South)
Departures observed
22 · 18 arrivals
Most seen destinations
CHC, WLG

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 (10)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
12:00ZKVCFR200 · ZK-VCFTIU
12:28ZKICSG2CA · ZK-ICS
12:59ZKLBIP208 · ZK-LBI
14:04ZKLCJTIU
14:07ZKZANC172 · ZK-NAVCHC
14:47ZKVCFR200 · ZK-VCF
15:23ZKERWC172 · ZK-ERWTIU
15:30ZKLCJNZFI
16:03ZKNYVOAM
06:44ANZ199LDH8C · ZK-NEJWLG

Landed (8)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
12:12ZKLCJ
12:37ZKVCFR200 · ZK-VCFTIU
13:54ZKZANC172 · ZK-NAVCHC
14:27ZKLCJTIU
15:44ZKNYVCHC
15:58ZKERWC172 · ZK-ERWTIU
19:09ANZ795LDH8C · ZK-NEJWLG
11:47ANZ231LDH8C · ZK-NECWLG

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
02/201,280 m · 4,200 ftasphalt42° · 222°
02L/20R1,188 m · 3,898 ftgrass40° · 220°
11/291,113 m · 3,652 ftgrass133° · 313°

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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