Tufi Airport

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Tufi Airport
Tufi Airstrip, looking North. Tufi Airstrip.jpg
Tufi Airstrip, looking North.
Summary
Serves Tufi, Papua New Guinea
Location Tufi, Papua New Guinea
Elevation  AMSL 125 ft / 38.1 m
Coordinates 09°04′33.6″S149°19′12.4″E / 9.076000°S 149.320111°E / -9.076000; 149.320111
Map
Papua New Guinea location map.svg
Airplane silhouette.svg
TFI
Location of airport in Papua New Guinea
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
2393,018920Unpaved
Uncontrolled Aerodrome. No Tower or Operations Center, No lighting, No ILS, No Refueling. Day VFR Only.

Tufi Airport is an airport in Tufi, Papua New Guinea built in the 1960s by the Australian Army. [1] It consists of a single 920m x 30m meter unpaved runway along a 059-239 degree axis. [2] There is no control tower and refueling is not available. Air Niugini flights are typically scheduled on Monday (POM-PNP-TFI-POM) and Friday (POM-TFI-PNP-POM). Tropic Air also schedules irregular cargo and passenger charter flights.

Contents

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Air Niugini Port Moresby [3]
PNG Air [4] Popondetta, Rabaul

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References

  1. "Tufi Airfield". pacificwrecks.com. 7 April 2020. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
  2. "Tufi Airport". Skyvector.com. 4 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  3. Liu, Jim. "Air Niugini adds Port Moresby – Tufi service from late-Sep 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  4. Airlines PNG flight schedule [ permanent dead link ]