Ōkaihau South Airstrip

The specific reason for closure is not publicly recorded. The closure was almost certainly due to private economic or practical reasons typical for farm strips. This could include a change in land ownership, the landowner ceasing to operate an aircraft, a decline in the need for local agricultural aviation, or the high cost of maintenance. The closure was not the result of a major accident, regulatory action, or military conversion.

The site of the former airstrip has been fully reclaimed as private farmland. The land is currently used for livestock grazing. While a very faint outline of the former runway can sometimes be discerned in satellite imagery under specific lighting conditions, it is completely overgrown with grass and is indistinguishable from the surrounding paddocks at ground level. There is no remaining aviation infrastructure, such as hangars, windsock, or markings.

Ōkaihau South Airstrip was a small, private grass runway. Its primary historical role was likely supporting the local agricultural industry, a common function for thousands of such strips across rural New Zealand. Operations would have included agricultural aviation (aerial topdressing with fertilizer and crop spraying) and potentially private recreational flights by the landowner or local pilots. It is important to distinguish this small strip from the main, more established Ōkaihau Aerodrome (NZOK), located approximately 4.5 km to the northeast. The identifier 'NZ-0067' is not an official ICAO code but a non-standard designator used in third-party flight simulator scenery and unofficial aviation databases to catalogue minor or defunct airfields not listed in official government publications.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening the Ōkaihau South Airstrip. The land is privately owned and actively used for agriculture. Given the existence of the nearby Ōkaihau Aerodrome (NZOK) which serves the region's general aviation needs, there is no practical demand or economic case for reinstating this former private strip.