Tongren Fenghuang Airport
airport in China
Tongren Fenghuang Airport (IATA: TEN, ICAO: ZUTR) is an airport serving the city of Tongren in Guizhou Province, China. It is located in Daxing Subdistrict in Songtao Miao Autonomous County, 21 kilometers from Tongren and 34 kilometers from Fenghuang, a popular tourist destination in neighboring Hunan Province. The airport was opened in 2001. Originally called Tongren Daxing Airport (铜仁大兴机场), it was renamed in October 2009.
History
Construction of Tongren Fenghuang Airport (then named Tongren Daxing Airport) began in 1958, but was suspended several times due to the Cultural Revolution.
The airport was completed at the end of March 1971 and officially opened to traffic on April 20, 1972. The airport runway was a concrete-gravel runway, 1,500 meters long and 40 meters wide.
In 1981, Daxing Airport was forced to close due to insufficient passenger and cargo traffic, making it unsustainable.
In 1997, Tongren Prefecture invested 163 million yuan to expand the airport, mainly for B737-300 passenger planes, with a 4C flight zone rating, a 2,000-meter runway, and a terminal building with a floor area of 2,415 square meters. The airport reopened in July 2001.
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