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Losuia Airport is an airport in
Losuia Losuia is a village on Kiriwina Island, part of the Kiriwina Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern hal ...
, on the island of
Kiriwina Kiriwina is the largest of the Trobriand Islands, with an area of . It is part of the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. Most of the 12,000 people who live in the Trobriands live on Kiriwina. The Kilivila language, also known as Kiriwina, ...
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History

Kiriwina Airfield was a coral surfaced long x wide single runway, built by
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Engineers with assistance from combat troops shortly after occupying the island on 30 June 1943 during
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was the first aircraft to land at the airfield on 2 August 1943.
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from the 60th Naval Construction Battalion expanded the airfield constructing a taxiway, 25 fighter hardstands, a taxiway and 16 bomber hardstands. Also known as ''South Drome'', upon completion of North Drome on the northern part of Kiriwina.


Allied Units based at Kiriwina Airfield

* No. 22 Squadron RAAF -
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* No. 76 Squadron RAAF - Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk * No. 78 Squadron RAAF - Kittyhawks * No. 79 Squadron RAAF -
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No. 6 Mobile Works Squadron RAAF The numero sign or numero symbol, (also represented as Nº, No̱, No., or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word ''number''(''s'') indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For example, using the numero sign, the ...
* No. 12 Repair and Salvage Unit RAAF *
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Kiriwina Airfield
Airports in Papua New Guinea Milne Bay Province {{PapuaNewGuinea-airport-stub