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Nusatupe Airport is a small island airstrip in Western Province, Solomon Islands, built on land created by joining two islets and serving nearby Gizo via a boat shuttle. It offers a single lit runway and is best known among Pacific flyers for its scenic, remote setting and its history as a wartime USAAF construction project.
Nusatupe Airport (ICAO: AGGN, IATA: GZO) sits on Nusatupe Island in Western Province, Solomon Islands, about 2 km east of Ghizo Island, and serves as the air link for the town of Gizo, from which it is separated by water. It is a regular Solomon Airlines destination and is notable to visiting pilots both for its unusual origin as an artificial strip built from two joined islands and for having been singled out in January 2023 as the 'best airstrip in the South Pacific' by the Coral Sea Foundation.
The airfield lies on the small island of Nusatupe, itself part of the wider Ghizo Island group in Western Province, Solomon Islands, close to Gizo town on neighbouring Ghizo Island. No specific airspace classification, FIR boundary detail, or nearby controlled airspace is given in the available sources.
Nusatupe has a single physical runway, 14/32, measuring 3267 ft and surfaced in hard standing (H). Both directions are lit, giving the field a usable strip for daylight and low-light operations, though no ILS or instrument approach is provided.
No communications frequencies, callsign, or navaids are recorded for Nusatupe Airport, and pilots should expect to operate without a published radio or instrument approach service at the field.
No specific joining or circuit procedures, circuit heights, or noise abatement restrictions are given in the available sources.
No published visual reporting points are given in the available sources, though the airstrip's position on the small island of Nusatupe, just east of the much larger Ghizo Island and the town of Gizo, together with the surrounding lagoon and islands of the New Georgia group, provides a distinctive visual picture for pilots approaching by sight.
Nusatupe Airport was constructed during the Second World War to support operations by the United States Army Air Forces, the runway being created by flattening two separate islands and joining them together using the excavated spoil. The airfield was substantially redeveloped in 2013 under a New Zealand aid programme, which removed an abrupt level change partway along the strip to create a single level runway, although the terminal building itself had not been upgraded as of a 2025 report. In January 2023 the airstrip was named the best in the South Pacific region by the Coral Sea Foundation.
Nusatupe remains a regular destination for Solomon Airlines, linking Gizo to the wider domestic network. Because the airfield sits on a separate island from the town it serves, a boat shuttle carries passengers between Nusatupe and Gizo, and private boats are able to load directly from the airport jetty. As of 2025 the terminal building itself was still awaiting the upgrade that had already been carried out on the runway.
