Gurney Airport
Gurney Airport is an airport serving Alotau in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. The airport is a single runway general aviation facility. In December 2008, the PNG Minister for Transport and Civil Aviation, Don Polye announced that the aviation company SkyAirWorld had been granted permission to operate direct flights from Cairns, Australia to Gurney.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Alotau, Papua New Guinea
- Also known as: “AYGN”, “Fall River Aerodrome”, “GUR”, “Gurney Field”, and “No. 1 Strip”
Gurney Airport
- Categories: airport, air base, commercial traffic aerodrome, and transportation
- Location: Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea, Oceania
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Latitude
-10.3107° or 10° 18′ 39″ southLongitude
150.33526° or 150° 20′ 7″ eastElevation
19 metres (62 feet)IATA airport code
GURICAO airport code
AYGNOpen location code
5RXGM8QP+P4OpenStreetMap ID
way 638687019OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gurney Airport” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مطار غورني”
- Cebuano: “Gurney Airport”
- Chinese: “格尼机场”
- Chinese: “格尼機場”
- Czech: “Letiště č. 1”
- Czech: “Letiště Gurney”
- French: “Aérodrome d’Alotau”
- French: “aérodrome de Gurney”
- French: “Aéroport de Gurney”
- French: “AYGN”
- French: “GUR”
- Indonesian: “AYGN”
- Indonesian: “GUR”
- Italian: “Aeroporto di Gurney”
- Japanese: “ガーニー空港”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Gurney”
- Persian: “فرودگاه گورنی”
- Polish: “Port lotniczy Gurney”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Gurney”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи гурни”
- Welsh: “Maes Awyr Gurney”
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