Foshan Shadi Airport
dual-use military and public airport serving the city of Foshan in Guangdong Province, China
Foshan Shadi Airport (IATA: FUO, ICAO: ZGFS), or Shadi Air Base, is a dual-use military and public airport serving the city of Foshan in South Central China's Guangdong province. FUO was re-opened to serve as a relief airport for the region. Along with two other major airports, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, it serves the catchment area of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone.
History
Foshan Shadi Airport was initially built in 1954. In 1963, the Civil Aviation Administration of China decided to expand Guangzhou Baiyun Airport to international airport standards. During the expansion of Baiyun Airport, all civil aviation passenger aircraft were transferred to the Foshan Shadi Air Force Airport for takeoff and landing.
Commercial flights started in 1985, but ceased in 2002 due to government policy. The airport was reopened to the public in 2009. Before the reopening, China United Airlines constructed a new terminal building with a total investment of approximately 100 million yuan, covering an area of 8,060 square meters and a total building area of 11,395 square meters. On November 18, 2009, Foshan Shadi Airport resumed civil aviation services.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Foshan Shadi Airport” as dual-use military and public airport serving the city of Foshan in Guangdong Province, China. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as dual-use military and public airport serving the city of Foshan in Guangdong Province, China. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5473352. Authority coordinates are 23.082, 113.071. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954, 1963, 1985 and 2002.
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This entry incorporates text from “Foshan Shadi Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.