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Welcome to AirspaceNZ

Welcome to AirspaceNZ!  A newly launched, vibrant online media platform providing the viewer an in-depth one stop shop for all things aviation covering New Zealand, the wider Oceania region and occasional specialty features from around the world.

AirspaceNZ has been created by a small team of dedicated enthusiasts bringing over 150 years of accumulated aviation experience It will serve as an ongoing resource pulling together a plethora of images and information as we endeavour to record, present and preserve our long standing aviation history.

AirspaceNZ will try and cover as much New Zealand and Oceania aviation as possible, injecting periodic posts from overseas correspondents. And with Air New Zealand playing such a significant part in the shaping of our region's history, it will have its own information page. This will be a work in progress, but it will give you an idea of what we would like to document.

Feel free to have a look around the site at the different pages, accessed from the menu at the top. It is early days, but into the future more content covering a wider range of aviation related topics will be added.

Your feedback is welcome, so please feel free to contact [email protected] or from the link on the About Us page.

Thank you for visiting and we hope you will find this site enlightening and informative.

The Team at AirspaceNZ.


Photo of the Month

©Jonathan Rankin - N936CA

©Jonathan Rankin - N936CA


Air New Zealand’s Inaugural Auckland - New York

17th September 2022 Air New Zealand’s long anticipated Auckland to New York new route has finally started. Their inaugural flight NZ2 operated by a B787-9, and ZK-NZN having the honours as the first to fly the route, departed at 4pm with a very happy 251 passengers onboard. An onboard party atmosphere was in full swing, as the passengers settled into the planned flight time of 15 hours and 33 minutes. About an hour out of Auckland NZ2 was the 2nd most tracked flight on Flightradar24 and as it approached New York it became the Number 1 most tracked flight in the world on Flightradar24. NZ2 landed at JFK on Runway 13L. Some photo’s of ZK-NZN at the gate in New York on arrival.

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NZ2 17th Sep JFK ZK-NZN Gate Arrival.jpeg

NZ2 17th Sep JFK ZK-NZN.jpeg


First Visit Atlas Freighter - B747-400F

12th Sep 2022 Atlas sent a first time visit to Auckland on the Qantas Freighter run into Auckland from Honolulu. QF7552 was operated by N452PA, B747-400F, which does not have any Qantas Freighter markings by the doors 1L and 1R. N452PA departed again for Sydney and then returned to Auckland late evening. It then will operate Auckland - Avalon AVV - Auckland sectors over the next few days. Some shots of the arrival from Honolulu and taxi out to Sydney.