Oamaru Airport (IATA: OAM, ICAO: NZOU) is an airport located 20 km north of Oamaru alongside State Highway 1, at Hilderthorpe in the North Otago region and the Waitaki District of New Zealand.

[1] In October 1968 Mount Cook Airline began using the 52 seater HS-748 aircraft into Oamaru.

A new sealed runway at the Oamaru Airport was passed as fully operational in March 1975.

[3] When scheduled services resumed in 2006 and the first BAe Jetstream 32EP arrived from Christchurch (operated by Air National on behalf of Eagle Airways) a crowd of approximately 500 people were present to view its landing.

The town has been through a lot of hurdles to gain then lose its air service forcing residents to either travel south to Dunedin or north to Timaru to catch a flight.