AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION, WUHAN MILITARY REGION, CHINA

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• Publication Date: April 1, 1973
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AIRFIELD CONSTRUCTION, WUHAN MILITARY REGION, CHINA
1. The People's Republic of China (PRC) has placed heavy
emphasis on airfield construction and improvement in the stra-
tegic Wuhan Military Region (Figure 1) since mid-1966. Seven-
teen of the region's twenty-one major airfields have been in-
volved in the upgrading. Nine of the 17 airfields have been
newly constructed (one is still under construction) and the
other eight have had improvements to runways or to facilities
(Table 1).
2. All 17 airfields have concrete runways. Twelve have
runways over 1,828.8 meters (6,000 feet) in length and are
capable of handling most of the jet aircraft in the present
PRC inventory. Three of the airfields have' underground air-
craft storage areas and a fourth has three hardened aircraft
shelters.
3. The
following indicates the progression of airfield
construction
and improvement activity:
Y
New
Improved
Reconstructed
ear
1966
1
0
0
1967
1
0
0
1968
0
0
0
1969
1
2
0
1970
3
1
1
1971
2
3
0
1972
1
1
0
1973
0
0
0
Total
9
7
1
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Item
No
Geographic
Coordinates
Construction
Started
Runway Length
Meters
Feet
1
An-
an
Airfield
36-07-37N
1972
635.2 x 57.9
1
Runway extension
25X1 D
y
g
114-20-07E
,
5365 x 190
,
resurfacing
Chi-yuan Airfield
35-07-58N
1970
2,607.5 x 51.8
New airfield
Runway serviceable/
112-37-35E
555 x 170
8
unoccupied
25X1 D
,
3
Jung-yang Airfield West
34-50-41N
1970
2,065.9 x 38.1
New airfield
Runway serviceable/
16
0
E
113
450
125
6
unoccu
i
d
25X1 D
-
7
-
x
,
p
e
4
Cheng-chou Airfield
34-46-39N
1969
2,205.2 x 60.9
Runway extension
Operational
25X1 D
2
E
11
43
200
235
5
-
3-
7,
x
Kai-fen
Airfield
34-45-CON
1970
2
211.3 x 45.7
Runway extended
Operational
25X1 D
g
26E
4
2
,
2
1
0
11
-
0-
7,
55 x
5
25X1 D
6
Tung-hsu Highway Strip SW
34-26-4ON
1972
2,220.4 x 30.4
New airfield
Under construction
114-21-50E
7
285 x 100
,
Chu-chi/Kuan-yin-tang Airfield
34-26-55N
1971
2
200.6 x 50.2
New airfield
Runway serviceable/
25X1 D
115-27-20E
,
7
220 x 165
unoccupied
,
25X1 D
Jang-ho-chen Airfield
33-40-56N
1969
2,189.9 x 47.2
New airfield
Operational
112-53-25E
7,185 x 155
25X1 D
Nan-yang Airfield
33-00-50N
1971
1,510.2 x 30.4
Runway extension,
Operational
112-32-10E
955 x 100
4
resurfacing
,
25X1 D
Kuang-hua Airfield
32-23-21N
1967
2,386.5 x 45.7
New airfield
Operational
111-41-46E
830 x 150
7
,
25X1 D
Ying-shan Airfield North
31-39-32N
1970
2,001.0 x 45.7
Reconstruction
Operational
113-49-14E
6
565 x 150
,
25X1 D
Huang-pei Airfield
30-54-30N
1971
1,664.2 x 41.4
New airfield
Runway serviceable/
114-30-30E
5,460 x 135
unoccupied
25X1 D
Hsiao-kan Airfield
30-57-18N
1971
1,301.4 x 30.4
Runway extension
113-54-48E
4,270 x 100
25X1 D
Wu-chia-chi Airfield
31-06-13N
1970
2,590.8 x 48.7
New airfield
Runway serviceable/
112-24-39E
8
500 x 16c
noccu
ied
,
p
u
25X1 D
Tang-yang Airfield
30-47-54N
1966
2,302.7 x 48.7
New airfield
Operational
111
48
4E
160
5
-
-5
55 x
7,
25X1 D
I-chang/Tu-men-wu Airfield
30-40-06N
1969
1,527.0 x 68.5
Runway resurfacing,
Operational
111-26-34E
5
010 x 225
hardstands added
,
Shan-po Airfield
30-05-17N
1971
429
2
2 x 51
8
Hardened aircraft
Operational
25X1 D
4
8
,
.
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t
11
-1
-52E
7,970 x 170
ers
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