Operated as a civil airport from 1945-1965. In 1945 the government made the RNZAF Station at Whenuapai available for civil airline operations on a temporary basis and with RNZAF activities to take precedence. That "temporary basis" lasted twenty years and the RNZAF had to give up their two smaller hangars and move to the north apron of their own airfield. In the 1940s Whenuapai was one of three aerodromes in the country with sealed runways, the others being Paraparaumu and Ohakea. In 1947 the government closed Mangere to all but light aircraft citing safety concerns, and NAC moved to Whenuapai.
Whenuapai International Airport
Whenuapai Aerodrome
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