Rugao Airbase
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Following the decisions in the 1980s to reduce the size of China's armed forces, a large number of military aircraft were withdrawn from service and became surplus. In the early 1990s the PLA Air Force built a large aircraft depot to accommodate these retired aircraft. China gathered over 1,000 fighters, transport planes, and bombers at Rugao Airbase in central China, which became the second largest aircraft storage facility in the world, ranking only after Davis-Monthan AFB in the United States.
www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/rugao.htm
www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/rugao.htm
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Coordinates: 32°15'25"N 120°30'10"E
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