Wapenamanda Airport — Wapenamanda, Papua New Guinea

Wapenamanda Airport, coded WBM, serves the town of Wapenamanda in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province, a mountainous highland region home to diverse indigenous communities. Given the extremely rugged terrain across the PNG highlands, where roads are often impassable or nonexistent, small airstrips like WBM function as essential lifelines connecting isolated populations to provincial centers and the national capital, Port Moresby. The airport typically handles small aircraft suited to short, sometimes challenging mountain runways, supporting cargo, medical evacuation, and passenger transport. Wapenamanda's economy centers on subsistence agriculture and coffee growing, both of which depend heavily on this fragile but vital air link.