List of airports in the Spratly Islands

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This is a list of airports in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Airports

Location	Occupied by	Name	Code	Built	Length	Notes
Taiping Island	Republic of China	Taiping Island Airport	RCSP	2007	1,200 m (est.)	Military use only. No refueling facilities.
Swallow Reef (Layang-Layang)	Malaysia	Layang-Layang Airport	LAC	1995	1,367 m	Dual-use concrete airport.
Fiery Cross Reef	People's Republic of China	Yongshu Airport	AG 4553	2016	3,300 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
Subi Reef	People's Republic of China	Zhubi Airport		2016	3,000 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
Mischief Reef	People's Republic of China	Meiji Airport		2016	2,700 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
Thitu Island (Pag-asa)	Philippines	Rancudo Airfield	RPPN	1978	1,300 m (est.)	Dual-use concrete airport.
Spratly Island (Trường Sa)	Vietnam	Trường Sa Airport		1976–77	1,200 m (est.)	Military use only. Extended from 600 m to 1,200 m in 2016.

Location

Meiji class=notpageimage| Location of Airports

References

The Taiping Island Airport was completed in December 2007, ("MND admits strategic value of Spratly airstrip." Taipei Times. 6 January 2006. p. 2 (MND is the ROC Ministry of National Defense)), and a C-130 Hercules transporter airplane first landed on the island on 21 January 2008.
Bong Lozada (18 June 2014). "Air Force to repair Pagasa Island airstrip". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
^ "Vietnam Responds". Center for Strategic and International Studies. 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2016-12-26.

Brunei	Louisa Reef
China	Cuarteron Reef Fiery Cross Reef Gaven Reefs Hughes Reef Johnson South Reef Mischief Reef Subi Reef
Malaysia	Ardasier Reef Dallas Reef Erica Reef Investigator Shoal Mariveles Reef Swallow Reef
Philippines	Commodore Reef Flat Island Irving Reef Lankiam Cay Loaita Cay Loaita Island Nanshan Island Northeast Cay Second Thomas Shoal Thitu Island West York Island
Taiwan	Taiping Island Zhongzhou Reef
Vietnam	Alison Reef Amboyna Cay Barque Canada Reef Bombay Castle Central London Reef Collins Reef Cornwallis South Reef Discovery Great Reef East London Reef Grierson Reef Ladd Reef Lansdowne Reef Namyit Island Pearson Reef Petley Reef Sand Cay Sin Cowe Island South Reef Southwest Cay Spratly Island Tennent Reef West London Reef

Unoccupied features

South China Sea

Pratas Island

Paracel Islands

Amphitrite Group	Rocky Island Tree Island West Sand Woody Island Qilian Yu
Crescent Group	Money Island Robert Island Yagong Island
Other features	Bombay Reef Triton Island

Northeastern SCS

Spratly Islands

Dangerous
Ground

NW	North Danger Reef Northeast Cay Southwest Cay Thitu Reefs Thitu Island Subi Reef Loaita Bank Lankiam Cay Loaita Cay Loaita Island Tizard Bank Gaven Reefs Namyit Island Sand Cay Taiping Island Zhongzhou Reef NNW Irving Reef West York Island WNW Western Reef
NE	Flat Island Nanshan Island Reed Tablemount Third Thomas Shoal
SE	Commodore Reef First Thomas Shoal Mischief Reef Sabina Shoal Second Thomas Shoal
SW	Union Banks Collins Reef Hughes Reef Johnson South Reef Sin Cowe Island Ardasier Reef Cornwallis South Reef Dallas Reef Erica Reef Investigator Shoal Mariveles Reef