Shigatse Peace Airport

Shigatse Peace Airport
Shigatse Peace Airport
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	日喀则和平机场
Traditional Chinese	日喀則和平機場
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Rìkāzé Hépíng Jīchǎng
Tibetan name
Tibetan	གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ཞི་བདེ་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང།
Wylie
Transcriptions
Wylie	gzhis ka rtse zhi bde gnam gru thang

Rikaze Peace Airport

日喀则和平机场
གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ཞི་བདེ་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང།
Rikaze Peace Airport; 日喀则和平机场; གཞིས་ཀ་རྩེ་ཞི་བདེ་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང།
	Terminal building
	IATA: RKZ; ICAO: ZURK;
Summary
Airport type	Military/public
Serves	Shigatse, Tibet A.R.
Location	Jangdam, Samzhubzê District, Shigatse
Opened	1973 (military); 30 October 2010 (public)
Elevation AMSL	3,782 m / 12,408 ft
Coordinates	29°21′06″N 89°18′25″E / 29.35167°N 89.30694°E
Map
	RKZ Location of airport in Tibet
Runways
Statistics (2021)
Passengers
Passengers	144,870
Aircraft movements	1,804
Cargo (metric tons)	528.9
	Source:

Rikaze (Shigatse) Peace Airport (IATA: RKZ, ICAO: ZURK), Shigatse Heping Airport, or Shigatse Air Base, is a dual-use military and civilian airport serving Shigatse, the second largest city in Tibet Autonomous Region, China. It is located in Jangdam Township,^[2] 43 kilometres (27 mi) from Shigatse. Situated at an elevation of 3,782 metres (12,408 ft), it is one of the highest airports in the world.^[2]

Construction of Shigatse Airport started in 1968 and was completed in 1973. It was solely for military use until 2010, when a 532 million yuan expansion was completed. On 30 October 2010, the airport was opened as the fifth civilian airport in Tibet.^[2]

Facilities

The airport has a 5,000-metre (16,000 ft) runway with a 60-metre (200 ft) asphalt overrun at each end. It is the longest public runway in the world (tied with Ulyanovsk Vostochny Airport).^{[citation needed]} It also features a 4,500-square-metre (48,000 sq ft) terminal building. It is projected to handle 230,000 passengers and 1,150 tonnes (1,130 long tons; 1,270 short tons) of cargo annually by 2020.^[2]^[1]

Around 2017, a new runway of approximately 3,000 metres (9,840 ft) was constructed. Guizhou WZ-7 Soaring Dragon UAVs were seen hosted by this runway. The runway is located at the west end of its primary runway.^[3]