List of airports in the Spratly Islands explained

This is a list of airports in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Airports

Location	Occupied by	Name	Code	Built	Length	Notes
			RCSP	2007	1,200 m (est.)	Military use only. No refueling facilities.^[1]
Swallow Reef (Layang-Layang)			LAC	1995	1,367 m	Dual-use concrete airport.
			AG 4553	2016	3,300 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
				2016	3,000 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
				2016	2,700 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
Thitu Island (Pag-asa)			RPPN	1978	1,300 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.^[2]
Spratly Island (Trường Sa)				1976–77	1,200 m (est.)^[3]	Military use only. Extended from 600 m to 1,200 m in 2016.

Location

Further reading

• Web site: China building airstrip-capable island on Fiery Cross Reef . 20 Nov 2014 . IHS Jane's 360 . Jane's Defence Weekly . James Hardy (London) and Sean O'Connor (Indiana) .

Notes and References

1. The Taiping Island Airport was completed in December 2007, ("MND admits strategic value of Spratly airstrip." Taipei Times. 6 January 2006. p. 2 (MND is the ROC Ministry of National Defense)), and a C-130 Hercules transporter airplane first landed on the island on 21 January 2008.
2. Web site: Air Force to repair Pagasa Island airstrip. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Bong Lozada. 18 June 2014. 2016-12-26.
3. Web site: Vietnam Responds . . 2016-12-01 . 2016-12-26.