Nanchang Yaohu Airport () is an airport in

Nanchang Nanchang (, ; ) is the capital of Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hinterland of Poyang Lake Plain, it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains, and on the east ...

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

, China, mainly used by

Hongdu Hongdu Aviation Industry Group Ltd. (HAIG) (), formerly China Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation or CNAMC, is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer and supplier to the People's Liberation Army, Chinese military. It is based in Nanchang, Jiangx ...

Aviation Industry Group Ltd., a major Chinese aircraft manufacturer, for test flights. It also serves as a

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airport.

Facilities

Yaohu Airport is the second largest airport in Jiangxi, occupying an area of . It has a runway that is long and wide, and more than 100 aircraft parking spaces. It may be used for test flights of the

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aircraft.

History

Since its founding in 1951,

Aviation had used

Nanchang Qingyunpu Airport Nanchang Qingyunpu Airport (), also known as Sanjiadian Airport (), is an airport in Qingyunpu District of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China. Originally constructed for use by the Republic of China Air Force, it was the largest airport in China when opened ...

for test flights. With the expansion of the city of Nanchang, Qingyunpu Airport became surrounded by the increasingly urban Qingyunpu District and restricted its development. On 23 December 2009, the Jiangxi provincial government reached an agreement with

Aviation Industry Corporation of China Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. ''Aircraft'' includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air ...

, the parent company of Hongdu Aviation, to build Yaohu Airport in the Nanchang Aviation Industrial City as the replacement for Qingyunpu Airport. Construction officially began on 24 November 2016, and the airport was opened on 16 August 2018. The total cost was 1.65 billion yuan.

References

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