Baotou Airport

Baotou Airport 包头机场 Bāotóu Jīchǎng
IATA: BAV – ICAO: ZBOW
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Baotou, Inner Mongolia
Location	Donghe District
Elevation AMSL	1,012 m / 3,320 ft
Coordinates
Map
BAV Location of the airport in Inner Mongolia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 13/31 2,800 9,186 Asphalt

Baotou Airport
Traditional Chinese	包頭機場
Simplified Chinese	包头机场
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Bāotóu Jīchǎng

Baotou Airport (IATA: BAV, ICAO: ZBOW) is an airport serving the city of Baotou in Inner Mongolia, China. Baotou Airport was founded preliminarily in 1934 and opened in 1956. The airport is 14 miles from downtown areas.

It is a class 4D airport. Runway 13-31 is 9186 feet long and 200 feet wide. It is equipped at both ends with Instrument Landing Systems (ILS), Approach Lighting Systems (ALS) with sequenced flashers, and touchdown zone (TDZ) lighting. Both the Boeing 737-900 and Boeing 767-300ER aircraft are capable of landing there.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air China	Beijing-Capital, Dalian, Hangzhou, Tianjin
Beijing Capital Airlines	Sanya, Zhengzhou
China Eastern Airlines	Harbin, Kunming, Nanjing, Xiamen
China Express Airlines	Chifeng, Chongqing, Dalian
China Southern Airlines	Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Dalian, Guangzhou, Luoyang, Sanya, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Shijiazhuang, Urumqi, Wuhan, Xi'an, Zhengzhou
China United Airlines	Beijing-Nanyuan
Hainan Airlines	Beijing-Capital
Juneyao Airlines	Shanghai-Pudong
Lucky Air	Kunming, Xi'an
Shandong Airlines	Jinan, Qingdao, Taiyuan, Tianjin
Shanghai Airlines	Shanghai-Pudong
Shenzhen Airlines	Guangzhou
Tianjin Airlines	Tianjin, Xi'an

Accidents and incidents

• On November 21, 2004, China Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 crashed shortly after takeoff from Baotou Erliban Airport. All 53 people on board the aircraft were killed plus 2 people on the ground.

See also

• List of airports in China

External links

• Accident history for BAV at Aviation Safety Network