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Guwasa Airport is a remote highland airstrip in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, serving the small community of Guwasa from a single short grass runway. Sitting at 4,770 feet elevation amid mountainous terrain, it is a basic, unlit facility typical of the short-field strips scattered across the PNG highlands, and it offers a challenging destination for the simulator pilot flying light STOL types.
Guwasa Airport is a small, remote airstrip serving the settlement of Guwasa in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. It sits at a high elevation of 4,770 feet in mountainous terrain typical of the PNG highlands, and its short grass runway makes it a demanding destination best suited to light, short-field capable aircraft in the simulator.
The airstrip lies in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, at coordinates -6.4657, 145.084. No specific controlled airspace, ATZ or FIR boundary detail is available for the field, and it should be treated as an uncontrolled airstrip in mountainous terrain typical of the region.
Guwasa has a single physical runway aligned 16/34, surfaced in grass and measuring 1659 feet in length. There is no ILS or other instrument approach aid, and no runway lighting is noted, so operations are strictly visual and daylight only.
No communications frequencies are published for Guwasa Airport, and it has no known radio or navigation aids. Pilots should expect this to be an uncontrolled strip with no ground-based navaids to assist an approach.
