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Picton Aerodrome

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Airport type
  
Private

Elevation AMSL
  
459 ft / 140 m

840
  
2,755

Code
  
PCN

Operator
  
Sounds Air

Location
  
Koromiko, New Zealand

18/36
  
840

2,755
  
Bitumen

Serves
  
Picton

Picton Aerodrome

Picton Aerodrome (IATA: PCN, ICAO: NZPN) is a Non-Certificated Aerodrome 4 NM (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) south of Picton township in the Marlborough District of the South Island in New Zealand. Sounds Air has 5 flights per day to Wellington. The Marlborough Sounds Airpark is located nearby offering 16 private hangars adjacent to the main runway with remote control access for the owners to park their aircraft. On 2 January 1986 seven people died when a Cessna aircraft crashed on take off near Picton. Later in another accident on 29 January 1996 five died when a Cessna Caravan crashed on approach to Picton.

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Picton Aerodrome Wikipedia