Suzhou Guangfu Airport
military airport in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Suzhou Guangfu Airport (IATA: SZV, ICAO: ZSSZ), also known as Suzhou West Airfield, is a People's Liberation Army Air Force Base in the city of Suzhou in East China's Jiangsu province, located 22 kilometres (14 mi) southwest of Suzhou City. From February 1994 until 29 October 2002 it briefly served civil flights for Suzhou, with flights to Foshan and Beijing, but is now exclusively used by the military. Suzhou is now mainly served by Wuxi Shuofang Airport, Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, and Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Suzhou Guangfu Airport” is military airport in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Suzhou, Guangfu and Airport, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “military airport in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
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 Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14600028. Authority coordinates are 31.263, 120.401. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 2002.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Suzhou Guangfu 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.