List of airports in the Spratly Islands

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

Airports

Location	Occupied by	Name	Code	Built	Length	Notes
Taiping Island	Republic of China	Taiping Island Airport	RCSP	2007	1,200 m (est.)	Military use only. No refueling facilities. [1]
Swallow Reef (Layang-Layang)	Malaysia	Layang-Layang Airport	LAC	1995	1,367 m	Dual-use concrete airport.
Fiery Cross Reef	People's Republic of China	Yongshu Airport	AG 4553	2016	3,300 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
Subi Reef	People's Republic of China	Zhubi Airport		2016	3,000 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
Mischief Reef	People's Republic of China	Meiji Airport		2016	2,700 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
Thitu Island (Pag-asa)	Philippines	Rancudo Airfield	RPPN	1978	1,300 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport. [2]
Spratly Island (Trường Sa)	Vietnam	Trường Sa Airport		1976–77	1,200 m (est.) [3]	Military use only. Extended from 600 m to 1,200 m in 2016. [3]

Location

Taiping

Layang-Layang

Yongshu

Rancudo

Trường Sa

Zhubi

Meiji

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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.

Further reading

• James Hardy (London) and Sean O'Connor (Indiana) (20 Nov 2014). "China building airstrip-capable island on Fiery Cross Reef". IHS Jane's 360. Jane's Defence Weekly.