Subi Airport
IATA: none ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type	Dual-use
Owner/Operator	People's Liberation Army Navy
Serves	Subi Reef
Location	Sansha city, Hainan province, China
Time zone	China Standard Time (UTC+8)
Coordinates	10°55′32.5″N 114°4′18.6″E / 10.925694°N 114.071833°E / 10.925694; 114.071833
Map
Subi Airport Location within Hainan
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 03/21 10,662 3,250 Concrete

Zhubi Airport is a dual-use airport on Subi Reef located in Spratly Islands.

History

Construction began in August 2015.

On July 12, 2016, the Chinese government used a Cessna CE-680 aircraft from the Civil Aviation Flight Check Center of China to conduct a check flight on the newly built airport and it succeeded. ^[1]

On July 13, 2016, the Chinese government requisitioned a civil airliner of Hainan Airlines. It departed from Haikou Meilan International Airport and landed at the newly-built airport. It returned in the afternoon of the same day to complete the test flight. ^[2]

Facilities

Subi Airport has a 3,250 metres (10,660 ft) x 60 metres (200 ft) runway, a terminal building, 20 hangars, and 2 helicopter platforms. While airport can be used by civilian aircraft no schedule airline currently uses this airport.