Located 200 miles northwest of Port Moresby, about 10 miles from the Gulf of Papua.

Terapo Airfield
Built by the Allies as an emergency airfield

 

C-47 Dakota Serial Number 42-23700 Aircraft Number 233
Pilot Walker crashed August 10, 1943

P-39Q Airacobra Serial Number 42-19987
Pilot Pitonyak crashed October 28, 1943 one of three aircraft lost to weather near Terapo