Buka Airport

ICAO AYBK5.4223°S 154.6727°E3 m / 11 ftMedium airport

Buka Airport (IATA: BUA, ICAO: AYBK) is a medium airport in Buka Island, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It has one runway, 1,562 m (5,125 ft) long, asphalt.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

04/22048° / 228° · LIT

LENGTH1,562 m5,125 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

RABTokua AirportPapua New Guinea · Air Niugini, PNG Air281 km175 mi LAENadzab Tomodachi International AirportPapua New Guinea · Air Niugini888 km552 mi POMPort Moresby Jacksons International AirportPapua New Guinea · Air Niugini935 km581 mi

Most destinationsAir Niugini 3PNG Air 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from BUA. From the Wikipedia article “Buka Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Longest runway1,562 m5,125 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=6,077of 29,823 · =330 Oceania · #21 PG Elevation3 m11 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,239of 43,341 · =2,120 Oceania · #554 PG Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =526 Oceania · =5 PG

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

1 channels

RDOLAE RDO127.100