Wanganui Airport

Wanganui Airport (WAG/NZWU) is in Wanganui, NZ, 8 m above sea level. It has 6 runways and the longest is 1,378 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
WAG · NZWU
City
Wanganui
Country
NZ
Coordinates
-39.9635, 175.0244
Elevation
8 m · 27 ft
Time zone
Pacific/Auckland
Local time now
01:54
Airspace
Christchurch (Taranaki)
Departures observed
37 · 15 arrivals
Most seen destinations
AKL, PMR, 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 (23)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
12:00ZKFRSPA38 · ZK-FRSWAG
12:36ZKNYKP208 · ZK-NYKWAG
12:39ZKNYJP208 · ZK-NYJWAG
12:45ZKNYIP208 · ZK-NYIWAG
13:02ZKNYDSIRA · ZK-NYD—
13:35ZKNYO—WAG
14:01ZKNYJP208 · ZK-NYJWAG
14:18ZKFRSPA38 · ZK-FRSWAG
14:25ZKNYMP208 · ZK-NYM—
14:27ZKNYIP208 · ZK-NYIWAG
14:56ZKNYHP208 · ZK-NYH—
15:22ZKNYJP208 · ZK-NYJWAG
15:52LFT03BE20 · ZK-LFAWLG
15:57ZKNYO——
16:30ZKLTLCRES · ZK-LTL—
16:35CVA721SF34 · ZK-CIZAKL
16:55ZKNYFP208 · ZK-NYF—
16:58ZKNYJP208 · ZK-NYJWAG
06:59CVA703SF34 · ZK-CIZAKL
07:00ZKNYIP208 · ZK-NYI—
10:03ZKFRSPA38 · ZK-FRS—
10:27CVA709SF34 · ZK-CIZAKL
11:18ZKNYB——

Landed (15)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
13:09ZKFRSPA38 · ZK-FRSWAG
13:11ZKNYKP208 · ZK-NYKWAG
13:14ZKNYJP208 · ZK-NYJWAG
13:39ZKNYIP208 · ZK-NYIWAG
14:15ZKNYO—WAG
14:35ZKNYJP208 · ZK-NYJWAG
14:46LFT03BE20 · ZK-LFAWLG
15:17ZKNYIP208 · ZK-NYIWAG
15:23ZKNYB——
15:27ZKFRSPA38 · ZK-FRSWAG
15:55ZKNYJP208 · ZK-NYJWAG
16:03CVA709SF34 · ZK-CIZAKL
17:27ZKNYJP208 · ZK-NYJWAG
19:16CVA721SF34 · ZK-CIZAKL
09:25CVA703SF34 · ZK-CIZAKL

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 (6)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
11C/29C1,378 m · 4,521 ftasphalt131° · 311°
11/291,372 m · 4,501 ftasphalt127° · 307°
11R/29L840 m · 2,756 ftgravel128° · 308°
14/32700 m · 2,297 ftgravel157° · 337°
08/26530 m · 1,739 ftgravel103° · 283°
11L/29R504 m · 1,654 ftgravel128° · 308°

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

Modo Avión draws these runways on the map as you land, with no signal. Free and no account.

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