Gasmata Island Airport guide

Gasmata Island Airport is a small airstrip on the southern coast of New Britain, in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. It sits on the Surumi Peninsula beside Thilenius Harbour and serves the nearby village of Gasmata and its surrounding coastal communities. Its ICAO code is AYGT.

The strip has a single grass runway, designated 09/27 and about 820 metres long. There is no paved surface. Secondary airlines, charter operators and missionary aircraft use the field.

An Australian civilian contractor built the original grass runway before the Second World War to serve a nearby copra plantation. Japanese naval forces occupied the airfield in February 1942 and extended it as a forward base. Allied bombing ended Japanese flying there by mid-1943, and the Japanese abandoned the site in 1943 and 1944. The airfield is still in use today.