Ganzhou Huangjin Airport (former) () was the old airport serving the city of

Ganzhou Ganzhou (), alternately romanized as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong District. Hist ...

in Jiangxi Province, China. The airport was located in Shuinan New Area in

Zhanggong District Zhanggong District () is the administrative center of the prefecture-level city of Ganzhou in the south of Jiangxi Province, China. The oldest part of Ganzhou's ancient sewage system named Fushou Gou (), which was built during the eleventh century ...

. It was named after the nearby village of Huangjin. Originally built in 1936, it was one of the first civil airports in China, but was closed in March 2008 when all services were transferred to the new airport, also named

Ganzhou Huangjin Airport Ganzhou Huangjin Airport is an airport serving the city of Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province, China. The airport is located in the town of Fenggang in Nankang District of Ganzhou. It is 16 kilometers from the city center of Ganzhou. The airport wa ...

History

The earliest construction of the airport is 1930, and was originally called ''Nanwai'' (南外) airport, serving as a rudimentary waypoint between Chongqing and all points to southern and eastern seaboard. The airport was rebuilt in 1936 with a 1,200-meter main runway and a 900-meter auxiliary runway. Both runways were 40 meters wide and 32 centimeters thick. The airport was mainly used by the military, but also had civil flights to Chongqing, China's wartime capital. During

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, the airport was known as Kanchow (Kan Hsien) Airfield and was used by the

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Fourteenth Air Force as part of the China Defensive Campaign (1942–1945). Kanchow was used as a photo-reconnaissance base by the Americans, which flew unarmed

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aircraft equipped with an array of mapping cameras on combat missions over Japanese-held territory. The airport also was the temporary base of many P-51 Mustang and B-25 Mitchell medium bombers during the war, which rotated flights in and out of the airfield frequently. The Americans closed their facilities at the airport in September 1945 at the end of the war.USAFHRA history search - Kanchow
/ref> In 1959 the main runway was repaired and widened by 10 meters, and the airport was opened to civil flights on 13 November 1959, but later ceased operation. In 1987 and 1992 the airport was expanded twice, with its runway lengthened to 2,200 meters and widened to 45 meters (class 4C). It was closed for the last time on 25 March 2008, when all flights were transferred to the new

. Its final flight was MU2993 to

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