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Yibin Caiba Airport () is a military and former public airport in the city of
Yibin Yibin (; Sichuanese Pinyin: nyi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation: ) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, China, located at the junction of the Min and Yangtze Rivers. Its population was 4,588,804 inhabitants, a ...
in southern
Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
province of China. Located in the town of Caiba in
Cuiping District Cuiping () is the core urban district of the city of Yibin in Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China, located at the confluence of the Jinsha and Min Rivers, which form the Yangtze here. It was formerly the county-level city of Yibin unti ...
, the airport was opened on 16 December 1992. In 2011 Yibin Caiba Airport served 326,000 passengers, a 12.4% increase over the previous year, and 2,737.6 tons of cargo. As the airport's location limited its capability to expand, in May 2012 the State Council of China approved the building of the new
Yibin Wuliangye Airport Yibin Wuliangye Airport is a dual-use public and military airport serving the city of Yibin in southern Sichuan province, China. Opened in December 2019, it replaced the older Yibin Caiba Airport. The airport is named after Wuliangye, a loca ...
to replace Caiba Airport. Caiba Airport served its last civil flight in the evening of 4 December 2019, and all commercial operations were then transferred to Wuliangye Airport, which opened the following day. As the military facilities of the new airport are still under construction, Caiba is expected to continue serving as a military airbase for approximately another year, and will then be completely closed.


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List of airports in China This is a list of public airports in the People's Republic of China grouped by provincial level division and sorted by main city served. It includes airports that are being built or scheduled for construction, but excludes defunct airports and ...
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List of the busiest airports in China China's busiest airports are a series of lists ranking the 100 busiest airports in Mainland China according to the number of total passengers, including statistics for total aircraft movements and total cargo movements, following the officia ...
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List of People's Liberation Army Air Force airbases This is a list of air bases operated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). Facilities included in the list include all aerodromes at which the PLAAF operates a regular presence. These may include those exclusively for military use ...


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{{authority control Airports in Sichuan Chinese Air Force bases Buildings and structures in Yibin Defunct airports in China Airports established in 1992 1992 establishments in China Airports disestablished in 2019 2019 disestablishments in China