Buka Airport
Buka Airport is an airport serving Buka Island in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. It is located at the southern end of the island, near Buka Passage behind the town of Buka, and pre-war Chinatown.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport on Buka Island, Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “AYBK”, “BUA”, and “Buka Airfield (WW2)”
Buka Airport
- Categories: airport, airbase, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-5.42212° or 5° 25′ 20″ south
Longitude
154.67292° or 154° 40′ 23″ east
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
BUA
ICAO airport code
AYBK
Open location code
6R6PHMHF+55
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
Discover Buka Airport from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Buka Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار بوكا”
- Belarusian: “Бука”
- Cebuano: “Buka Airport”
- Chinese: “布卡機場”
- Czech: “Letiště Buka”
- French: “aérodrome de Buka”
- French: “Aéroport de Buka”
- French: “AYBK”
- French: “BUA”
- Indonesian: “AYBK”
- Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Buka”
- Indonesian: “BUA”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Buka”
- Japanese: “ブカ空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Buka”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Buka”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Buka”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Бука”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи буко”
- Uzbek: “Buka aeroporti”
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