It’s official. More than five years after it was proposed, and more than 18 months after construction kicked off, Air New Zealand’s Hangar 4\u2014the world’s largest aircraft hangar built from mass timber\u2014is ready to take full flight. Today, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who first announced the project in 2019 during the pre-COVID era while serving as the airline’s CEO, opened the Southern Hemisphere’s largest single-span timber-arch structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spanning 98 metres, soaring 35 metres high and covering 10,000 square metres, the Auckland-based Hangar 4 can accommodate a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner alongside two Airbus A320 or A321 narrow-body jets simultaneously. Last month, Wood Central exclusively revealed that an 80-metre-wide hangar door, engineered by Champion Door Oy and installed by PENSA DOORS NZ, marked the final step before aircraft could begin rolling in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n