Kinmen Airport
| 金門 尚義 機場 Kinmen Kinmen Airport |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | RCBS |
| IATA code | KNH |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 17 m (56 ft ) |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1994 |
| operator | Civil Airport Authority |
| Passengers | 2,303,711 (2014) |
| Air freight | 8,001.0 t (2014) |
| Flight movements |
32,505 (2014) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 06/24 | 3004 m × 45 m asphalt |
| year | Flight movements |
Passengers | Freight (in t) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 19,584 | 1,279,551 | 1,755.8 |
| 2001 | 18,612 | 1,336,773 | 6,628.7 |
| 2003 | 18,448 | 1,171,977 | 9,508.2 |
| 2004 | 21,956 | 1,418,185 | 8,015.5 |
| 2005 | 23,548 | 1,447,989 | 6,515.8 |
| 2006 | 22,898 | 1,435,153 | 5,706.1 |
| 2007 | 23,683 | 1,466,235 | 6,412.2 |
| 2008 | 25,148 | 1,726,790 | 8,220.4 |
| 2009 | 28,180 | 1,986,694 | 9,348.4 |
| 2010 | 27,012 | 2,094,623 | 9,137.9 |
| 2011 | 29,080 | 2,242,368 | 8,676.5 |
| 2012 | 27,430 | 2,300,654 | 8,694.5 |
| 2013 | 29,901 | 2,192,607 | 7,748.4 |
| 2014 | 32.505 | 2,303,711 | 8,001.0 |
The Kinmen Airport (also Shang Yi Airport ; traditional Chinese : 金門 尚義 機場) (IATA: KNH, ICAO: RCBS) is the civil airport of the district or the island of Kinmen in the Republic of China (Taiwan) . It is located in Jinhu Township . It was built in 1994 northeast of the former military airport. In 2014, around 2.3 million passengers used the airport.
Data
The airport is 17 meters above sea level. It has a runway (06/24) with a 3004 meter long and 45 meter wide paved surface. A road about three kilometers long leads to two neighboring villages.
Incidents
The only known serious incident occurred on June 6, 1983, as a Fairchild C-119 G Flying Boxcar of the Taiwanese Air Force ( Air vehicle registration number 3197 ) a few minutes after the start due to the failure of an engine and a stall crashed into the sea. A total of 38 of the 47 inmates died.
aims
- Far Eastern Air Transport : Taipei-Songshan
- Mandarin Airlines : Taichung , Taipei-Songshan
- TransAsia Airways : Kaohsiung , Taipei-Songshan
- Uni Air : Chiayi , Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan , Taipei-Songshan
See also
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Official Website (Chinese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 表 3 民航 運輸 各 機場 營運 量 - 按 機場 分, 14. 金門 機 (Table 3 civil aviation transports to the airport, 14. Kinmen airport). (pdf) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on May 21, 2018 (Chinese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Airport data on World Aero Data ( English, as of 2006 )
- ^ Accident report C-119, 3197 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 29, 2020.
