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Chaoyang Airport

airport in China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ63975 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chaoyang Airport (IATA: CHG, ICAO: ZYCY) is an airport serving the city of Chaoyang in Liaoning Province, China. Constructed in 1933, the airport served commercial flights in the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s. The most recent expansion was completed in October 2007 and flights resumed in 2008.

Editorial summary

“Chaoyang Airport” enters the record as airport in China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chaoyang, Airport and airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chaoyang, Airport and airport.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Chaoyang Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chaoyang, Airport and airport provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q63975. The first chronological checks are 1933, 2007 and 2008.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Chaoyang Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Chaoyang Airport primary sources, Chaoyang Airport archive and Chaoyang research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Chaoyang Airport”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Chaoyang 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.