avia.wikisort.org - AerodromeGusap Airport is a general aviation airport in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. (IATA: GAP) located at the base of the Finisterre Range. It has no scheduled commercial airline service. It is currently in use, and maintained by Ramu Agri Industries Ltd. (RAIL) for Crop Dusting purposes (Aerial Spraying on Sugar Cane and other agricultural crops).
Airport in Gusap, Papua New Guinea
Gusap Airport |
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Airport type | Public |
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Location | Gusap, Papua New Guinea |
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Elevation AMSL | 1,450 ft / 442 m |
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Coordinates | 06°03′12.93″S 145°57′37.23″E |
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03/21 |
5,250 |
1,600 |
Grass |
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History
Gusap Airport was built by US Army engineers of the 871st, 872nd and 875th Airborne Aviation Engineer Battalions during World War II, and was developed into major base consisting of ten airstrips and numerous facilities for fighters and light bombers of the Fifth Air Force. Later during the war, the airfield was also a base for Royal Australian Air Force aircraft. The base was built around eight grass runways, with 180 revetments in the complex. The airstrip at Gusap "paid for itself many times over in the quantity of Japanese aircraft, equipment and personnel destroyed by Allied attack missions projected from it."[1]
Many relics from this period can be still found in the surrounding environment, and Ramu Agri Industries Limited at Gusap have established a mini-museum with restored relics for viewing. These include strip dozers, Bren Guns, 50mm Aircraft cannon, various ammunition, US & Japanese helmets and even the engine from a Japanese "Sally" Bomber recovered from the nearby mountains, on display.[2]
Allied units assigned to Gusap Airfield
- Headquarters, 85th Fighter Wing (25 February – 24 July 1944)
- Headquarters, 310th Bombardment Wing (1 February – 6 May 1944)
- 312th Bombardment Group (1 January – June 1944)
- Headquarters, 386th, 387th, 388th, 389th Bomb Squadrons, A-20 Havoc
- Headquarters, 39th, 41st Fighter Squadrons, P-47 Thunderbolt
- Headquarters, 7th, 8th, 9th Fighter Squadrons, P-40 Warhawk (1943), P-47 Thunderbolt (1944)
- 6th Machine Gun Battalion
See also
- World War II portal
- USAAF in the Southwest Pacific
Notes
References
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
- Dexter, David (1961). The New Guinea Offensives. Australia in the War of 1939–1945: Series One (Army) Volume VI. Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 2028994.
- Casey, Hugh J., ed. (1951). Airfield and Base Development. Engineers of the Southwest Pacific. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. OCLC 220327037.
Further reading
- Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
External links
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Previously: Philippine Department Air Force (1941); Far East Air Force (1941-1942) |
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- USAAF in Australia
- USAAF in the Southwest Pacific
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Bombardment |
- 3d Bombardment
- 7th Bombardment
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- 38th Bombardment
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- 90th Bombardment
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Fighter |
- 8th Fighter
- 24th Pursuit
- 35th Fighter
- 49th Fighter
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Troop Carrier |
- 317th Troop Carrier
- 374th Troop Carrier
- 375th Troop Carrier
- 433d Troop Carrier
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Night Fighter | |
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Reconnaissance |
- 2d Observation
- 8th Photographic Reconnaissance
- 36th Photographic Reconnaissance
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Troop Carrier |
- 21st Troop Carrier
- 22d Troop Carrier
- 65th Troop Carrier
- 66th Troop Carrier
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