Suzhou Guangfu Airport Explained

Iata:SZV
Icao:ZSSZ
Coordinates:31.2631°N 120.4006°W
Pushpin Map:China Jiangsu
Pushpin Label:SZV
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of airport in Jiangsu
Type:Military
Owner:People's Liberation Army
Operator:People's Liberation Army Air Force
City-Served:Suzhou
Location:Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Metric-Elev:y
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:18/36 [1]
R1-Length-M:2200
R1-Surface:Concrete
Footnotes:Source:

Suzhou Guangfu Airport, also known as Suzhou West Airfield, is a People's Liberation Army Air Force Base in the city of Suzhou in East China's Jiangsu province, located 22 kilometers southwest of Suzhou City.[2] From February 1994 until 29 October 2002 it briefly served civil flights for Suzhou, but is now exclusively used by the military. Suzhou is now mainly served by Sunan Shuofang International Airport, Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, and Shanghai Pudong International Airport.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. GoogleEarth refers the runway to 18/00
  2. Web site: http://js.people.com.cn/city_info.php?type=data&city=123&child_city=&id=6 . zh:苏州交通运输 . People's Daily . zh . 2013-08-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130930154201/http://js.people.com.cn/city_info.php?type=data&city=123&child_city=&id=6 . 2013-09-30 .