Subi Airport | |
Type: | Dual-use |
Coordinates: | 10.9257°N 114.0718°W |
Pushpin Map: | South China Sea |
Pushpin Label: | Subi Airport |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Hainan |
Location: | Sansha city, Hainan province, China |
City-Served: | Subi Reef |
Owner-Oper: | People's Liberation Army Navy |
Timezone: | China Standard Time |
Utc: | UTC+8 |
R1-Number: | 03/21 |
R1-Length-F: | 10662 |
R1-Length-M: | 3250 |
R1-Surface: | Concrete |
Zhubi Airport is a dual-use airport on Subi Reef located in Spratly Islands.
Construction began in August 2015.
On July 12, 2016, the Chinese government used a Cessna CE-680 aircraft from the Civil Aviation Flight Check Center of China to conduct a check flight on the newly built airport and it succeeded. [1]
On July 13, 2016, the Chinese government requisitioned a civil airliner of Hainan Airlines. It departed from Haikou Meilan International Airport and landed at the newly-built airport. It returned in the afternoon of the same day to complete the test flight. [2]
Subi Airport has a 3250m (10,660feet) x 60m (200feet) runway, a terminal building, 20 hangars, and 2 helicopter platforms. While airport can be used by civilian aircraft no schedule airline currently uses this airport.