Be Reopened
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Anderson Aifield
NDERSON Airfield, made
amous during the US Marines’
upation of Guadalcanal, BSIP,
g the Pacific war, will eventually opened for civil air traffic, s has been decided because the at airfield at Kukum, near tra, cannot be developed to the safety standards required nternational Civil Aviation ments. the same time, Barakoma air m Vella Lavella will be closed Vlunda, on New Georgia, re d instead. Barakoma does not up to international standards present the only airline using airfields regularly is Qantas e Airways on its regular Syd ew Guinea-Solomons service, ing the war, dozens of airstrips mt down by the Americans all he Solomons group; most of have fallen into disrepair.
BSIP Government will use from the Colonial Welfare evelopment Fund to cover the stages of development of the ‘-opened airfields. :e have been various rumours
about Henderson in recent years: that it was to be reopened and de veloped as a military aerodrome, or as a refuelling point on an inter national route; or as a base for an airservice to Nauru and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.