Butaritari Airport guide

Butaritari Airport (IATA: BBG, ICAO: NGTU) serves Butaritari Atoll in the Gilbert Islands of Kiribati, the second most northerly of the Gilbert Islands. The airport sits on the atoll's main island at about 3.09 degrees north, 1.5 m above sea level. The atoll is nearly 30 km from east to west and averages about 15 km from north to south.

The United States built the airstrip in 1943 after taking the atoll from Japan. Construction began on 20 November 1943, the day of the landing, and finished in mid-December. It was known then as Makin Airfield, Antakana Airfield and Starmann Field. After the war it became a commercial airport. It has one runway, 07/25, about 1,067 m (3,500 ft) long with an asphalt surface.

Air Kiribati flies twice a week to Makin and to Bonriki International Airport on South Tarawa. The atoll had 4,346 residents at the 2010 census, spread across twelve villages.