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Buin Airport

Buin, Papua New Guinea

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Elevation

230 ft

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Location

Buin · NSB · Papua New Guinea

Position

-6.729°, 155.683° · 230 ft elev.

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Remote airstrip serving the southern tip of Bougainville Island.

Location

Buin, Papua New Guinea

Buin Airport (IATA: UBI, ICAO: AYUI) is a small domestic airstrip located near Buin, a town in the South Bougainville District of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. The airport provides essential air access to a region with limited road infrastructure, making it a critical link for local communities and cargo movements. The airport operates at a basic level of service typical of remote Papua New Guinean airstrips, with minimal terminal facilities. It primarily handles light aircraft and small turboprop services connecting Buin to other regional centers such as Buka and Port Moresby.

Terminals

The airport has no formal passenger terminal; basic shelter facilities serve arriving and departing passengers.

Getting to & from

Ground transport from the airport to Buin town relies on private vehicles and informal road transport, as no formal taxi or bus service is established.

Airlines here

Air Niugini and its subsidiary Link PNG have operated services to Buin, providing connections to the broader Papua New Guinea domestic network.

Notable facts

›Buin is located at the southern end of Bougainville Island, near the border with Solomon Islands.
›The region around Buin was the site of significant World War II activity, including the death of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1943.
›The airport serves a largely subsistence-farming and cocoa-producing community.
›Limited runway length restricts operations to small propeller-driven aircraft.
›Bougainville is in the process of transitioning toward independence from Papua New Guinea following a 2019 referendum.

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Buin Airport (IATA:UBI) was an airport located near Kara, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea.

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Buin Airport

Airport in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Buin Airport (IATA:UBI) was an airport located near Kara, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea.

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