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Liuting is listed under the ICAO code ZSQD near Qingdao in Shandong Province, China, a designation that today corresponds to the location and infrastructure of Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport, which inherited the code and IATA identifier TAO when it opened in August 2021. The field is built around two very long parallel hard runways exceeding 11,700 feet, reflecting its role as a major international gateway for the city.
The ICAO code ZSQD and IATA code TAO originally identified Qingdao Liuting International Airport, a long-serving civil airport in the Chengyang District that traced its origins back to 1944. Those same codes and the associated location now describe the current major airport serving Qingdao, Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport, which took over as the city's principal air gateway when it opened on 12 August 2021. For a simulator pilot, the field is notable for its scale: two very long parallel runways capable of handling the largest airliners, set in the coastal industrial region of Shandong Province.
The airfield lies in the Qingdao (Jiaozhou) area of Shandong Province, China, at coordinates 36.365 N, 120.098 E, and an elevation of 30 feet. The historic Liuting airport that previously used this identifier sat about 23 kilometres from the centre of Qingdao in Chengyang District; the airport now associated with the code lies further out toward Jiaozhou. No specific airspace classification, FIR boundary, or details of neighbouring controlled airspace are given in the available sources.
The field has two long parallel hard-surfaced runways, both lit. One pair, runway 16/34, measures 11,744 feet in one direction and 11,755 feet in the reciprocal direction; the other pair, runway 17/35, measures 11,744 feet and 11,755 feet respectively. No ILS is recorded for the field.
No specific communications frequencies, callsign, or navaid information are published for this identifier. No ILS approach is listed for the field.
Qingdao Liuting International Airport was built in 1944 and located on Liuting Street in the Chengyang District of Qingdao, about 23 kilometres from the city centre. It began commercial operations on 5 August 1982 and grew into one of China's twelve major trunk airports, serving as a hub for Shandong Airlines, Beijing Capital Airlines and Qingdao Airlines, and as a focus city for China Eastern Airlines. Terminal and parking expansions took place between 2004 and 2006, and the runway was extended to its final length during that period. Liuting became China's 15th busiest airport in 2018, handling 24.53 million passengers, and gained its first non-stop intercontinental link in March 2016 when Lufthansa upgraded its Frankfurt service to a direct flight; Beijing Capital Airlines later added services to Melbourne and Vancouver. Constrained by urban growth around the site, the Chinese government approved a replacement airport, Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport, in December 2013. All flights transferred to the new airport when it opened on 12 August 2021, after which Liuting closed as a commercial airport on the same date, having handled over 16 million passengers and nearly 140,000 flights that year.
Following the closure of the original Liuting airport in August 2021, its former IATA and ICAO codes, TAO and ZSQD, were carried over to Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport, which now serves as the city's operating international gateway under the Qingdao International Airport Group. No details on general aviation facilities, fuel availability, operating hours, or prior-permission requirements are given in the available sources, and there is no indication of dedicated flight-simulator scenery for the field.