Kinmen Airport

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Kinmen Airport
IATA: KNH - ICAO: RCBS
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Civil Aeronautics Administration
Serves Kinmen
Elevation AMSL 93 ft (28 m)
Coordinates 24°25′40″N, 118°21′33″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
06/24 9,865 3,007 Asphalt

Kinmen Airport (IATA: KNHICAO: RCBS) is a civilian airport serving Kinmen (Quemoy), Fukien Province, Republic of China (Taiwan). It was built in 1994 as a civilian airport located at Shang-I, to the northeastern side of the original military airport. It was authorized to become a C-class airport under the direct supervision of Civil Aeronautics Administration, Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Executive Yuan.

It has one runway (direction 06-24) of 3000 metres in length and 45 metres in width. A 2580-metre connecting road links to a highway leading to two townships.

It served an average of 1.2 million passenger every year. There are scheduled flights to Chiayi, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan and Taipei, by Far Eastern Air Transport, Mandarin Airlines, TransAsia Airways and Uni Air.

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