Jackson Airport
Port Moresby

Jackson is still used today, and is the country's national airport. A new, modern (and air conditioned) terminal has been build in the late 1990's and put into use.

Although all traces of the wartime presence at the strip are all but gone, John Douglas proved that assumption wrong, when he took me to the far end of the airport, where the kunai grass was still high, and several intact horseshoe "U" shapped ravetments were still present.

Abandoned on the near one of the ravetments is a DC-3 (C-47) in Air Nugini markings. It is completly stripped of engines, instruments and gear but is otherwise completly intact. Another DC-3 is in similar condition, but inside the PNG Defense Force barbed wire compound.

Walking the top of the ravetment brought vivid memories images of Australian and US Army fighters and bombers on the taxiways, and Zeros overhead. This is hollowed historical ground for countless veterans.

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