Gusap Airport
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IATA: GAP – ICAO: AYGP – LID:
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Location | Gusap, Papua New Guinea | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,450 ft / 442 m | ||||||||||
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Source: World Aero Data [1]
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Gusap 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.
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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]
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
- 35th Fighter Group (7 February-22 July 1944)
- Headquarters, 39th, 41st Fighter Squadrons, P-47 Thunderbolt
- 49th Fighter Group (20 November 1943 – 19 April 1944)
- Headquarters, 7th, 8th, 9th Fighter Squadrons, P-40 Warhawk (1943), P-47 Thunderbolt (1944)
See also
Notes
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References
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
- www.pacificwrecks.com
External links
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- ↑ Casey 1951, pp. 171–172
- Pages with reference errors
- Use dmy dates from February 2011
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency
- Airports in Papua New Guinea
- Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Papua New Guinea
- Morobe Province
- Oceanian airport stubs
- Papua New Guinean building and structure stubs