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Pingtung Airport

Field	Value
name	Pingtung Airport North
nativename-a	{{nobold	屏東航空站}}
{{nobold	屏東機場}}
nativename-r	Píngdōng Hángkōngzhàn
Píngdōng Jīchǎng
image	屏東航空站.JPG
image-width	250
IATA	PIF
ICAO	RCSQ
pushpin_map	Taiwan#Southeast Asia#East China Sea#North Pacific#Earth
pushpin_relief	y
pushpin_label	PIF
type	Public
city-served	Pingtung, Taiwan
elevation-f	78
elevation-m	24
coordinates
metric-elev	yes
metric-rwy	yes
r1-number	08/26
r1-length-f	8000
r1-length-m	2438
r1-surface	Asphalt

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Pingtung Airport () are two airports in Pingtung City, Pingtung County, Taiwan . The airport is currently home to the Republic of China Air Force 6th Tactical Mixed Wing, and formerly offered commercial flights.

History

Pingtung Airport was opened in November 1920 during Japan's rule over Taiwan. Originally, the base was used for "air policing", that is, the use of airplanes to govern indigenous peoples living in hard-to-reach areas. This practice ended in 1927 when the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service 8th Air Squadron was moved from Tachiarai, Fukuoka, to Pingtung. With further expansions and more military personnel moving in, Pingtung Airport served an important role in the Japanese military throughout the Japanese colonial era and the Pacific War. After Japan's defeat in the Pacific War in 1945, the base came into the control of the Republic of China Air Force.

Commercial flights

Between 1936 and 1942, Japan Air Transport and later Imperial Japanese Airways operated commercial flights to Taihoku Airfield (now Songshan Airport in Taipei).

In November 1993, Pingtung Airport opened for commercial flights again. Since the passenger terminal was not completed, the Pingtung Performing Arts Hall was used as the airport terminal and passengers were shuttled to and from the south airport. In February 1995, a small passenger building was completed at the south airport; in 2005, a larger passenger building was completed at the north airport.

Originally, TransAsia Airways operated flights out of the airport until Uni Air took over in 2007. However, with the completion of Taiwan High Speed Rail in 2007, very few people took the flights anymore, and commercial flights ceased in August 2011.

Notes

References

(15 March 2019). "六聯隊沿革".
"(屏東) 飛行第八部隊". [[Academia Sinica]].
(26 July 2011). "屏東航站將關閉 8月中停飛". [[Yahoo!]].

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