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Gisborne Airport

ICAO NZGS38.6633°S 177.9780°E5 m / 15 ftMedium airport
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Gisborne Airport (IATA: GIS, ICAO: NZGS) is a medium airport in Gisborne, Gisborne Region, New Zealand. It has 5 runways; the longest is 1,310 m (4,298 ft). In 2022 it handled 134 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Gisborne Airport Terminal
14R/32L165° / 345° · LIT
LENGTH1,310 m4,298 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
09/27117° / 297°
LENGTH1,170 m3,839 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEGrass
03/21048° / 228°
LENGTH1,150 m3,773 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEGrass
14L/32R166° / 346°
LENGTH763 m2,503 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEGrass
14/32
LENGTH—WIDTH—SURFACE—

Passengers per year

2011–2022
135K
132K
133K
155K
156K
141K
156K
171K
192K
197K
115K
134K
111213141516171819202122

Routes

6 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsSunair 4Air New Zealand 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GIS. From the Wikipedia article “Gisborne Airport” (revision of 14 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers134K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,710of 3,974 · #67 Oceania · #15 NZLongest runway1,310 m4,298 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=8,618of 29,823 · =610 Oceania · =28 NZElevation5 m15 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,827of 43,341 · =2,061 Oceania · =145 NZRunways51 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=14of 29,943 · =3 Oceania · =2 NZ
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

4 channels
APPAPP127.300
ATISATIS126.400
CTAFCTAF127.300
TWRTWR127.300