Shangqiu has an airport.
Shangqiu Guantang Airport (Shangqiu Guantang Airport), located in Guantang Town, Liangyuan District, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, China, is a Class 4C military-civilian joint-use airport, one of the five major civil airports in Henan Province.
Shangqiu Air Force Shangqiu Airport was built in 1968, and Shangqiu Guantang Airport is a newly built civil aviation airport on the original site of the airport, about 20 kilometers east of the center of Shangqiu City.
The reconstruction and expansion project will be a new 2600 meters long x 45 meters runway, part of the parallel taxiway and contact taxiway cover and widening, a new 5,000 square meters of the terminal building, station apron bit, work and living room, parking lot, air traffic control building, tower, heating boiler system, sewage treatment station, but also to rebuild the transformation of part of the military aviation facilities and other corresponding ancillary facilities, the reconstruction project planning and construction of the land area of 1975 acres. Area of 1975 acres, a total investment of 1 billion yuan, the construction period of 18 months.
Value significance
Construction of Shangqiu Guantang Airport is conducive to the optimization of resources, the terrain of Shangqiu Guantang Airport is flat, with superior air-clearance conditions, the site has the airspace, location, geography, transportation, environment and development of civil reservation and other good conditions for the development and construction of the Shangqiu Guantang Airport provides a solid condition.
Turned into a civil airport, not only to make reasonable use of existing airport resources, reduce land acquisition, saving investment, but also can greatly improve the runway landing conditions, is conducive to environmental protection of the airspace, convenient for the troops to live, and is conducive to the forces of combat training flight security. At the same time, it can also be used for seeding and pest control, emergency rescue, advertising and photography, as well as other public welfare undertakings.
The above references? Baidu Encyclopedia-Shangqiu Airport, Henan Provincial People's Government-Shangqiu City