Shache Yarkant Airport | |
Iata: | QSZ |
Icao: | ZWSC |
Type: | Public |
City-Served: | Yarkant (Shache), Xinjiang, China |
Location: | Zirefuxiati |
Opened: | 1 August 2017 |
Coordinates: | 38.245°N 77.06°W |
Pushpin Map: | China Xinjiang |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Xinjiang |
Pushpin Label: | QSZ |
Elevation-M: | 1290 |
Metric-Elev: | y |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 15/33 |
R1-Length-M: | 3000 |
Stat-Year: | 2021 |
Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
Stat1-Data: | 277,259 |
Stat2-Header: | Aircraft movements |
Stat2-Data: | 4,420 |
Stat3-Header: | Cargo (metric tons) |
Stat3-Data: | 1,378.7 |
Footnotes: | Source: |
Order: | st |
S: | 莎车叶尔羌机场 |
T: | 莎車葉爾羌機場 |
P: | Shāchē Yè'ěrqiāng Jīchǎng |
Uig: | يەكەن ئايرودرومى |
Shache Ye'erqiang Airport is an airport that serves Yarkant County (Shache) in Kashgar Prefecture of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China. It is located near Zerepshat/Zirefuxiati Village (Uighur; Uyghur: زەرەپشات تاجىك يېزىسى, Chinese: 孜热甫夏提). The airport received approval from the State Council of China and the Central Military Commission in January 2014. The estimated cost of construction was 541 million yuan.[1] Shache Airport opened on 1 August 2017 as the 19th airport in Xinjiang.[2]
Carnoc reported in 2014 that the airport would have a 3,000-meter runway (class 4C), a 3,000 square-meter terminal building, and four aircraft parking places. It is projected to handle 200,000 passengers and 830 tons of cargo annually by 2020.