What's the most obscure airport you've visited?

Cossie said:
Ah memories, Bullhead City is where me and her got married under eucalypt trees on the banks of the Colorado river, our room in Laughlin NV overlooked the airport in AZ, seems like a lifetime ago……..……

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I used to visit Laughlin quite often, driving up from LA and staying at the Flamingo.

I'd get a nice room overlooking the river, where you could watch the seaplanes taking off and landing.
 
Interesting thread.

So, a few domestic ones that haven't been mentioned already:
  • Wallis Island, Forster NSW (FOT/YFST). No road access so you took a ferry to access the airport. Apparently Butler Air Transport used DC3s back in the 50s. More recently, Tamair ran a commercial service to SYD back in 1994 but it didn't last long
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  • Old Bar Heritage Airport (YOBR). I flew between YFST and YOBR on a light plane owned by the local Police Commander. He needed a lift (by boat) out to the airport on Wallis Island and offered me a ride to Old Bar & back in return. Interesting day.
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  • Palmers Island, Yamba (YPLI). Also know as McIntyres Airfield. At least it has road access and it even has a lounge clubhouse.
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As for international:
  • Daru, Western Province PNG (DAU/AYDU). My only experiences flying on Twin Otters (with Airlines PNG).
  • Gurney Airport, Alotau, Milne Bay Province, PNG. Built during WW2 and has an interesting history during that period.
  • Vilo Acuña Airport, Cayo Largo del Sur, Cuba (CYO/MUCL). Flew here with Aerogavoitia on an Antonov 26.
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  • There aren't many airlines I won't fly on ever again, Aerogavoitia is at the top of the list. Airlines PNG (now rebranded as PNG Air) is another.
 
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Not really obscure but different:
Paro Intl in Bhutan (fun watching the mountains on the way past)
MGW Morgantown in West Virginia, more challenging because of the aircraft we were in.
 
Mattg said:
As per the thread title - what was the most out-there airport you've flown into or out of?

I realise the term "obscure" is subjective, as an airport in a small city in Zimbabwe (for example) is probably not that obscure for the people living there. But for the purposes of this thread, I wonder if anyone's been to an airport that no other AFF members have visited?

This doesn't necessarily need to have been on a commercial flight. An obscure airport could, for example, be a little-used airport in a major city such as Biggin Hill in London (which I have not been to and has no commercial flights).

If I think about some of the more obscure airports I've visited, ones that come to mind include Shymkent (CIT), Horta (HOR), Yellowknife (YZF) or Stewart Island/Oban (SZS).
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Chingozi Airport -TET- is an airport at Tete in Mozambique
 
Another one I had forgotten about, Moroni, Comoros Is. It would have been YVA, Iconi Airport in 1988. It closed a few years ago.
 

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