Hawkes Bay Airport

Yesterday my older son went on his annual holiday to his Grandfathers.  I thought you might be interested in seeing our domestic only airport here in Napier.  Do you have a big airport or a little one near where you live?  

the plane he went on finally there was a delay due to some of New Zealand having bad weather 

History of our airport

Before the 1931 earthquake the land which is now the airport was under the sea

After the earthquake 

In 1932 volunteers from the Napier Aero Club built a new aerodrome.  There was a airplane show for its opening. 

There was a weather bomb in 1938 caused severe flooding.  The building in the middle of the picture was the airport terminal which was a converted tramcar.  In the 1960s solutions were put in place so this wouldnt happen again.  

From 1938 there was a daily service from Gisborne to Napier to Palmerston North on 12 seater airplanes.  The tramcar continued to be the terminal and  taxis took passengers from Napier CBD to the airport.  

In 1953 bigger planes started using the airport as air traffic control started being used full time.   There was now also a new tarmac.  

In 1963 there was a new sealed runway and the NAC Friendship started,  There was a bus especially to get passengers to and from Napier and Hastings to the airport.  Up until now the airport was known as the Beacons aerodrome now it became the Hawkes Bay Airport.  The government and local authorities now ruan it.  

In 1964 the Hawkes Bay Airport was officially opened.