Suavanao Airport
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Suavanao Airport is an airport on Santa Isabel Island
in the Solomon Islands
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The main destination off this airfield is Honiara, Solomon Island's capital. It has very little traffic, providing one flight a week most of the times, depending on the season. Mainly used by Isabel’s inhabitants, it also provides a fast connection to a Papatura Island resort.
The short airstrip is basically a leveled and cleaned up piece of land, it is not paved,-surrounded by a dense tropical forest and narrow streams- where small regional aircrafts like DHC-6 Twin Otter or Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander of Solomon Airlines could only land. There is a small wooden cabin by the strip, but there’s no electricity nor means of communication with the main land.
Santa Isabel Island
Santa Isabel Island is the longest in the Solomon Islands, South Pacific, and the largest in the group of islands in Isabel Province.-Location and geographic data:...
in the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...
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The main destination off this airfield is Honiara, Solomon Island's capital. It has very little traffic, providing one flight a week most of the times, depending on the season. Mainly used by Isabel’s inhabitants, it also provides a fast connection to a Papatura Island resort.
The short airstrip is basically a leveled and cleaned up piece of land, it is not paved,-surrounded by a dense tropical forest and narrow streams- where small regional aircrafts like DHC-6 Twin Otter or Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander of Solomon Airlines could only land. There is a small wooden cabin by the strip, but there’s no electricity nor means of communication with the main land.