Airside services & facilities
The following facilities and services are available to aviation and airline operators at Hawke’s Bay Airport.
On request
Cat 6 available on request
With a cross-runway 07-25
Aeronautical conditions of use
Hawke’s Bay Airport’s conditions of use sets out the terms and conditions under which you may use the Airport and the Facilities and Services at the Airport. By using the Airport or Facilities and Services you agree to be bound by these conditions of use, and this will be amended from time to time in accordance with clause 1.3.
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Landing & parking charges
Unless agreed otherwise all users of Hawke’s Bay Airport are required to provide the following information (as set out in Schedule 3 of the Conditions of Use) within 24 hours following each day in which the airport’s facilities and services are used:
- The number of landings made by each of your aircraft operating at the airport.
- Details of the registration and MCTOW of each aircraft operating at the airport.
Unless agreed otherwise this information must be supplied electronically via the below link:
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Non-regular air transport operations
* MTOW/Fixed Charge (excl GST)
** Per day fixed charge (excl GST)
Civil Aviation Authority - Drone Rules
The Civil Aviation Authority has strict rules regarding the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles cannot operate:
- Within 4 km of any aerodrome unless specific conditions are met
- In airspace designated special use, or with any airspace restrictions
- In a way that causes a hazard for people or property
- Over runways or any other ‘active’ part of the aerodrome including other aircraft
- Outside of daylight hours (after sunset and before sunrise) except if indoors or within 100 m of and below the top of a natural or man-made object
- Above any area where the ground visibility is less than 3 km or if the cloud base is low and can not be operated in line of sight of the operator
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Kitesurfing, model aircrafts, paragliding near the airport
There are strict rules around kitesurfing, paragliding and other activities involving the presence of people/equipment in the air.
HBRC Harbourmaster bylaw. There shall be no kite surfing, paragliding or other activity involving the presence of people/equipment in the air, in the Napier Pilotage Area as shown in Map 1.5, (see page 42) unless approved by the Napier Air Traffic Control.
NZTA The Transport Agency’s policy is to not permit non-certificated operations (covered under Part 101 of the CAA Rules) to fly directly above or along the road corridor, or cross over a section of the state highway, or on land potentially zoned for roading project, regardless of whether the highway is open or closed at the time of operation.
Napier City Council Parks and Reserves Bylaw 2021 states; No Person must, from or in the air space above any Reserve, fly any form of model aeroplane except with the prior permission of an Authorised Officer and then only in compliance with every condition under which such permission is granted.
Napier City Council Public places bylaw states: Except with the prior permission of Council or an Authorised Officer a Person must not on any Public Place: m) Take off or land any aircraft including helicopters, model aeroplanes, a hot air balloon or hang-glider, parachutes or similar devices, except in an emergency.
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