Wanzhou Wuqiao Airport is an airport serving

Wanzhou District Wanzhou District () is Chongqing's second most populated urban core area on the upper reaches of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in China. It is currently governed as a district of Chongqing Municipality, bordering Sichuan to the northwest ...

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, China. It is located from the centre of Wanzhou. The airport was opened on 29 May 2003.

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Wanzhou was formerly served by the military

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. Its runway was too short for civil use, but the plan to extend it was abandoned. Instead, the new Wuqiao Airport was built by cutting into mountains and filling bottomlands. It has a runway that is 2400 meters long and 45 meters wide (class 4C), capable of operating

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airplanes.

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