Phu Cat Airport ( vi, Sân bay Phù Cát) is the airport serving

Qui Nhơn Quy Nhon ( vi, Quy Nhơn ) is a coastal city in Bình Định province in central Vietnam. It is composed of 16 wards and five communes with a total of . Quy Nhon is the capital of Bình Định province. As of 2019 its population was 457,400. H ...

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. It is in Phù Cát District between the towns of

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and Đập Đá, around northwest of Qui Nhơn within Bình Định Province along the

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of Vietnam. As well as being a commercial airport, Phu Cat is also used by the Vietnamese Air Force ''(Khong Quan Nhan Dan Viet Nam)''. Phu Cat Airport is the hub of a new Vietnamese carrier

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''. Phu Cat Airport handled 1.5 million passengers in 2017.

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Phù Cát Airport was built in 1967 during the

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for the

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(USAF) by the American construction company RMK-BRJ. During the war, it was a major air base for the

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and USAF. Until 1975, the airport was known as ''Gò Quánh Airport''. The airport was one of the major sites for Agent Orange recharge besides Bien Hoa Air Base and Da Nang Air Base. Due to heavy activities involving dioxin during the war, the ground at the airport was polluted with toxic chemicals and cleanup efforts are still ongoing. After 1975, it was used for training purpose by the Vietnamese Air Force and subsequently developed into a mixed-use airport for both regional civic air transport and military activities in 1984 following the suspension of civic service at nearby

Qui Nhơn Airfield Qui Nhơn Airfield (also known as Qui Nhơn Airport, Qui Nhơn Air Base or Qui Nhon Army Airfield) is a former United States Air Force, United States Army and Vietnam Air Force airfield located in Qui Nhon in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. History ...

. In September 1984, the airport served its first commercial flight. On July 10, 2003, construction on a new passenger terminal for the airport started. The terminal was completed in June 2004. It has a capacity of 600,000 passengers per year with 2 airplane gates, 6 check-in counters and 2 conveyor belts. The airport handled 420,000 passengers in 2014 and held an average 46% annual growth in passengers. The airport served 1.5 million passengers in 2017. On February 13, 2017, works started on the site of a new passenger terminal for Phu Cat Airport. This terminal, built on a cost of US$22 million, would have a capacity of 1.5 million passengers per year with room for expansion up to 2.4 million. The new terminal opened on May 3, 2018 and completely replaced the 2003-built terminal.

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at the airport

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