Kaifeng Air Base

Kaifeng Air Base is a People's Liberation Army Air Force Base, located about 1 mile southeast of Kaifeng (Henan Province) in the People’s Republic of China.

Kaifeng Air Base
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Summary
Airport type	Military
Serves	Kaifeng
Location	Kaifeng, China
Coordinates	34°45′16″N 114°20′21″E
Map
Kaifeng Air Base
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 03/21 8,125 2,462 Concrete

History

During World War II, the airport was known as Laifeng (Kaifeng) Airfield and was used by the United States Army Air Forces Fourteenth Air Force as part of the China Defensive Campaign (1942–1945). Laifeng was the home of the Chinese-American Joint Intelligence Agency, and operated as a photo-reconnaissance base, with unarmed P-38 Lightning aircraft fitted with cameras flying over Japanese-held areas during the spring and summer of 1945. The American units ended operations from the airfield after the war ended in September 1945.^[1]