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Kaohsiung International Airport (RCKH/KHH), also known as Siaogang Airport, is Taiwan's second busiest airport and the principal gateway to the south of the island, sitting in Siaogang District on the southern edge of Kaohsiung city. It offers a single long, hard-surfaced east-west runway with ILS on both approaches, full air traffic control services and a mix of international and regional airline traffic, making it a straightforward but busy destination for a simulated arrival into southern Taiwan.
Kaohsiung International Airport lies in Siaogang District on the southern fringe of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's major industrial city and largest port. Operated by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, it is the country's second-busiest airport after Taipei Taoyuan and handles a substantial mix of international and domestic scheduled traffic through separate international and domestic terminals. For a simulator pilot it offers a compact, single-runway international field with full ATC services, ILS-equipped approaches and a coastal southern Taiwan setting.
The airport sits within controlled airspace in Siaogang District, on the southern edge of Kaohsiung city, close to the coast of the Taiwan Strait. Air traffic services at the field include approach, tower, ground movement, clearance delivery and an ATIS broadcast, indicating a fully controlled environment typical of a major international aerodrome.
Kaohsiung has a single physical runway aligned 09/27, of hard surface construction and lit, with ILS serving approaches in both directions. The database records a length of 9,793 ft for runway 09 and 8,841 ft for the reciprocal runway 27, reflecting different declared distances for each direction of use. Field elevation is 23 ft.
Radio services at Kaohsiung include Approach on 121.1 MHz, ATIS on 127.8 MHz, a CLD frequency on 121.8 MHz, Clearance Delivery, Ground on 121.9 MHz and Tower on 118.7 MHz. Both runway ends are served by ILS, supporting instrument approaches to the single 09/27 runway.
The airfield originated in 1942 as an Imperial Japanese Army Air Squadron base during the Japanese colonial period. When the Republic of China government took control of Taiwan in 1945 the site retained its military role, before being demilitarised and converted into a domestic civil airport in 1965 under the Civil Aeronautics Administration. It was upgraded to international status on 1 July 1969, with regular international flights beginning in October 1972. Through the 1970s and 1980s international services were limited, with Hong Kong and Tokyo as the only direct destinations for a time, before dedicated connecting flights to Taipei were introduced in the early 1990s to improve access to international routes for southern Taiwan. A new terminal dedicated to international flights opened in 1997, and in the summer of 1998 EVA Air briefly operated a direct service to Los Angeles, discontinuing it after six months. Since 2009 passenger numbers have grown further with the introduction of scheduled cross-strait flights to China and the rise of low-cost carriers.
Kaohsiung International Airport remains a major commercial gateway for southern Taiwan, recording around 5.8 million passengers in 2024 and ranking as the country's second-busiest airport after Taoyuan. It operates separate international and domestic terminals and is served by a range of Asian carriers offering both scheduled passenger and cargo services. The airport functions primarily as a large commercial aerodrome rather than a general aviation field, with control tower, approach and ground services supporting airline operations into its single ILS-equipped runway.