Tabibuga: Trans-Australian Airways airplane (de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter) on grass airstrip

• February 1962

• Cook, Edwin A.

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Edwin Cook Papers (Archive negative 2, Roll 14, Envelope 25-30, Frame 28)

"This is the airstrip at Tabibuga, a little over 1600' long, the plane is a DeHavilland Otter, the largest type of craft that can land, its a grass airstrip and 100 points of rain in a day, a not unusual occurrence, closes the Cessnas. TAA stands for Trans-Australian Airways. The entire strip was constructed with shovels and took about two years." MSS187, Box 44, Folder 9.

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Papua New Guinea
• Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)

• Airplanes
• Airports

• image

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• Edwin Cook Papers

• UC Regents

[Title, Date]. Edwin Cook Papers. MSS 187. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-17