List of airports in the Spratly Islands

This is a list of airports in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

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Military occupations

Airports
LocationOccupied byNameCodeBuiltLengthNotes
Taiping IslandTaiwanTaiping Island AirportRCSP20071,200 m (est.) Military use only. No refueling facilities. [1]
Swallow ReefMalaysiaLayang-Layang AirportLAC19951,367 m Dual-use concrete airport.
Fiery Cross ReefChinaYongshu AirportAG 455320163,300 m (est.) Dual-use concrete airport.
Subi ReefChinaZhubi Airport20163,300 m (est.) Dual-use concrete airport.
Mischief ReefChinaMeiji Airport20162,700 m (est.) Dual-use concrete airport.
Thitu Island (Pag-asa)PhilippinesRancudo AirfieldRPPN19751,300 m (est.) Concrete.[2]
Spratly Island (Trường Sa)VietnamTrường Sa Airport1976-771,200 m (est.)[3] Military use only. Extended from 600m to 1,200m in 2016.[3]

Location
Yongshu
Rancudo
Trường Sa
Zhubi
Meiji
Location of Airports

References
  1. The Taiping Island Airport was completed in December 2007, ("MND admits strategic value of Spratly airstrip." Taipei Times. 6 January 2006. p. 2 (MND is the ROC Ministry of National Defense)), and a C-130 Hercules transporter airplane first landed on the island on 21 January 2008.
  2. Bong Lozada (18 June 2014). "Air Force to repair Pagasa Island airstrip". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  3. "Vietnam Responds". Center for Strategic and International Studies. 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-26.

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