Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport

{{Short description|Military airport in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China}}

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| name = {{nowrap|Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport}}

| nativename = {{nobold|{{lang|zh|杭州笕桥机场}}}}

| image = 202403 Remote View of Jianqiao Airport, Hangzhou.jpg

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| ICAO =

| coordinates = {{coord|30|19|59|N|120|14|20|E|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = China

| pushpin_map_caption = Location of airport in China

| pushpin_label = Jianqiao

| type = Military

| owner = People's Liberation Army

| operator = People's Liberation Army Air Force

| owner-oper =

| city-served = Hangzhou

| location = Jianqiao, Jianggan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

| built = {{start date|1931|||df=yes}}
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| opened = {{start date|1957|01|01|df=yes}}
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| passenger_services_ceased = {{end date|2000|12|29|df=yes}}

| elevation-f = 16

| elevation-m = 5

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| metric-elev = y

| metric-rwy = y

| r1-number = 07/25

| r1-length-m = 3,200

| r1-length-f = 10,500{{cite book|author=John Stroud|title=Airports of the World|publisher=Putnam|isbn=978-0370300375|year=1980}}{{rp|74}}

| r1-surface = Asphalt

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File:201611 City Landscape of Hangzhou.jpg, taken near the airport. Heights of the buildings vary with the distance to the airport due to the height-restriction policy.]]

Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport (or Hangzhou Air Base), formerly romanized as Schien Chiao,{{Cite book |last=Cheung |first=Raymond |title=Aces of the Republic of China Air Force |publisher=Osprey Publishing |year=2015 |isbn=978 1 4728 0562 1 |location=Oxford, England |chapter=Shanghai and Nanking campaigns}} is a People's Liberation Army Air Force Base in Hangzhou, the capital city of East China's Zhejiang province. It is located in the town of Jianqiao in Jianggan District, about 7 miles northeast of the city center. It served as the city's civilian airport from 1 January 1957 until 29 December 2000, when all commercial flights were transferred to the newly-built Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport.{{Cite web |url=http://unn.people.com.cn/GB/channel455/456/1233/200012/15/19437.html |title=杭州笕桥机场即将光荣"引退" |access-date=2011-10-23 |archive-date=2019-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213183522/http://unn.people.com.cn/GB/channel455/456/1233/200012/15/19437.html |url-status=dead }}

History

Jianqiao was developed into an airfield and flight training institute in 1922 under support and directives of the Anhui clique warlord Lu Yongxiang and World War I veteran ace fighter pilot Zhu Binhou,{{cite web|url=http://tw.aboluowang.com/2008/0104/69790.html|title=中國人朱斌侯一戰時擊落德空軍司令|date=4 January 2008|website=阿波羅新聞網|access-date=30 June 2017}} with a squadron of aircraft that included Breguet 14s.{{cite web|url=http://www.flyingtiger-cacw.com/new_page_461.htm|title=中國第一位空戰英雄 朱斌侯傳略|website=www.flyingtiger-cacw.com|access-date=30 June 2017|archive-date=28 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128142612/http://www.flyingtiger-cacw.com/new_page_461.htm|url-status=dead}} Jianqiao air force base was then consolidated in 1931 in wake of the Mukden Incident by the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and was a location of major air battles between the Chinese air force and the Imperial Japanese air forces (such as the Jianqiao Battle) during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45); battles scenes of Jianqiao which were re-enacted in a Taiwanese motion-picture patriotic war drama Heroes of the Eastern Skies (or Heroes of Jianqiao). In 1956 it was converted to a public airport and civil flights started on January 1, 1957. The airport was expanded in 1971 in preparation for the official visit of President Richard Nixon of the United States. In 1990 the runway was again lengthened and widened to 3,200 meters long and 50 meters wide. The airport handled 2,167,400 passengers in 1999, and served 46 routes in 2000 before all civil flights were transferred to the newly built Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport.

When Jianqiao Airport serviced commercial flights, it housed the headquarters of Zhejiang Airlines."World Airline Directory." Flight International. 31 March-6 April 1999. [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1999/1999%20-%200828.html?search=%22Zhongyuan%20Airlines%22 108]. "Jian Qiao Airport, 7 Yucheng Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310021, China"

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