Location
Located on Ponam Island.

Construction
Single runway built by the US Navy.

Wartime History
Later turned over the the Royal Navy, and along with nearby Pityilu Airstrip were their only airbases in the South West Pacific area.

Units Based on Ponam
ACORN 28
CASU 42 (also at Pityilu Airfield)
CASU 13 (also at Pityilu Airfield)

H.R. Langeishe adds (via Aeroplane Monthly, June 2005):
"I served on the Fleet Air Arm on Naval Air Stations in Australia from 1944 - 1946. The task [of dumping aircraft] was huge and involved the clearance of of reserve aircraft held at Ponam and Pityilu, the two forward Royal Navy airstrips of Manus Base.  The two airstrips were cleared using lighters to ships anchored offshore and the aircraft were dumped into the ocean there. This went on through March or April 1946. Not only were complete aircraft consigned to the deep, but engines and spares too."

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