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Glentanner Airport is a small, high-altitude airfield on Glentanner Station in the Mackenzie Basin of Canterbury, New Zealand, close to the shores of Lake Pukaki and within sight of Aoraki/Mount Cook. It serves as a base for scenic and ski-plane operations into the Southern Alps, and for the VFR pilot it offers a dramatic approach amid glaciated peaks rather than any complex airspace or procedures.
Glentanner Airport sits on Glentanner Station in the Mackenzie Basin of Canterbury, New Zealand, close to Lake Pukaki and beneath the peaks of the Southern Alps. It functions primarily as a base for scenic and ski-plane flights into the Aoraki/Mount Cook region, giving visiting pilots a straightforward single-runway field set against some of the country's most striking mountain scenery.
The airfield lies at Glentanner Station in the Canterbury region, on the shore of Lake Pukaki and within easy reach of Aoraki/Mount Cook to the north. It sits in uncontrolled airspace under the Christchurch Flight Information Service, with no controlled airspace directly overhead, and is one of the access points used for flights into the Mount Cook area.
Glentanner has a single sealed runway, 15/33, 3,435 feet in length. There is no ILS or other instrument approach available, so operations are conducted visually.
Traffic at Glentanner is worked on the CTAF, 118.6 MHz, using the callsign Alps Traffic. An AFIS is also available on 123.5 MHz through Christchurch FIS. There is no ILS or other radio navigation aid at the field, so arrivals and departures are flown visually.
Glentanner Airport today operates as a base for scenic and ski-plane flying into the Aoraki/Mount Cook and Southern Alps region, making use of its single sealed 15/33 runway. Its elevation of 1,762 feet and mountain surroundings mean pilots should expect the strong visual and terrain-awareness demands typical of Mackenzie Basin flying, with no instrument approach available at the field.
