Saidor Airport

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Saidor Airport (IATA: SDI, ICAO: AYSD) is a public airport in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It sits on the coast near Saidor, with Dekys Bay to the east and the Bismarck Sea to the north. The airport elevation is 75 ft (23 m) above sea level. Its coordinates are 05°37′42.92″S 146°27′54.29″E. The runway, 12/30, is 3,805 ft (1,160 m) long and has a grass surface. It serves general aviation.

Saidor was a pre-World War II airfield. After the US Army landed at Saidor on 2 January 1944 to free the area from the Japanese, a runway running roughly east-southeast to west-northwest was built. It began usable by light liaison planes and was later expanded with extensive taxiways and revetments on the north and south sides of the runway, plus an apron at each edge. At the time, Saidor was the forward airfield for Allied aircraft striking Japanese forces to the west, and many planes refueled and made emergency landings there.