Te Taunga Waka Rererangi o te Takutai o Kapiti
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60 te Rori o Toru, Paraparaumu
Ko Paraparaumu Aerodrome te ingoa o mua o te Taunga Waka Rerenga o te Takutai o Kapiti.
Ko Rongotai te taunga waka rererangi matua o Pōneke i 1934. Ko te tikanga ia, me whai tētehi atu taunga waka rererangi mō te tūpono pā mai o tētehi tūpuhi, ā, ko Paraparaumu i kōwhiria i 1938. I whakaotingia i 1939, ā, i whakamahia hoki e te hunga hoia i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao.
Atu i 1947-1959, ko Paraparaumu te Taunga Waka Rererangi i reira te mahi a te tangata. I nekehia a National Airways Corporation (NAC) i te wā i katia ai a Rongotai kia eke ai tōna kounga ki te taumata-ā-ao.
E rua ngā toronga o te whānau kīngi e HM Queen Elizabeth II me te Tiuka HRH o Edinburgh, i rere mai nei i te 9 o Hānuere 1954, me te rerenga atu i 16 o Hānuere 1954.
Ko ngā whakahaere a NAC i whakahokia atu ki Rongotai i 1959, ā, i huringia a Paraparaumu hei ratonga waka rererangi whānui.
I 2006, i hokona te taunga waka rererangi o Paraparaumu ki ngā kaipupuri tūmataiti, i arahina hoki e Tā Noel Robinson, ā, i whakahoungia ngā ratonga. I te 24 o Oketopa 2011, i whakatūwherangia te whakahoutanga ingoatanga Kapiti Coast Airport, arā ki Te Taunga Waka Rererangi o te Takutai o Kapiti
Ko ngā ratonga rerenga o te Taunga Waka Rererangi e whakahaeretia ana mai i te Pourewa Whakahaere, kei reira hoki te Ratonga Pārongo Rerenga. He mea hanga te Pourewa Whakahaere i 1947. Kua rēhitatia hei Category II Historic Place. He tohu whenua nō Paraparaumu.
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