NPL

New Plymouth Airport

ICAO NZNP39.0086°S 174.1790°E30 m / 97 ftMedium airport
On the map

New Plymouth Airport (IATA: NPL, ICAO: NZNP) is a medium airport in New Plymouth, Taranaki Region, New Zealand. It has 3 runways; the longest is 1,310 m (4,298 ft). It is operated by New Plymouth District. In 2019 it handled 455 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Skywork Helicopters LtdNew Plymouth Airport Terminal
05L/23R067° / 247° · LIT
LENGTH1,310 m4,298 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
14/32157° / 337°
LENGTH1,200 m3,937 ftWIDTH40 m131 ftSURFACEGrass
05R/23L066° / 246°
LENGTH1,000 m3,281 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEGrass

Passengers per year

2011–2019
30K
321K
332K
344K
342K
412K
435K
437K
455K
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Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from NPL. From the Wikipedia article “New Plymouth Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers455K (2019)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,153of 3,974 · #34 Oceania · #7 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 NZElevation30 m97 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=36,992of 43,341 · =1,558 Oceania · #111 NZRunways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,943 · =22 Oceania · =13 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

5 channels
AFISCHRISTCHURCH CON123.700
APPAPP124.700
ATISATIS127.050
CTAFCTAF124.700
TWRTWR124.700