Whakatāne Airport

Whakatāne Airport (IATA: WHK, ICAO: NZWK) is an airport serving the town of Whakatāne, New Zealand, the Eastern Bay of Plenty and the tourist attractions of Mount Tarawera and White Island.

The airport opened on 24 January 1963 with a new sealed runway and a construction cost of 50,000 pounds.

[1] It had a 250m runway end safety area (RESA) added to allow larger aircraft such as Saab 340 to land.

[3][citation needed] The "excitingly different" terminal building was designed by Roger Walker[4] and completed in 1974.

In 2019, Heritage New Zealand listed the airport terminal as a Category I Historic Place.

Whakatāne Airport terminal.
Colourful Air Chathams Fairchild Metroliner on the tarmac at Whakatāne Airport. The aircraft was used exclusively by the airline to maintain a scheduled air service between the Bay of Plenty town and Auckland International Airport .