{"id":1106,"date":"2010-06-13T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T00:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2010-06-13T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T00:24:03","slug":"satellite-images-of-lungkang-army-airfield-%e9%be%8d%e5%b2%a1%e6%a9%9f%e5%a0%b4%e8%a1%9b%e6%98%9f%e7%85%a7%e7%89%87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Images of Lungkang Army Airfield (\u9f8d\u5ca1\u6a5f\u5834\u885b\u661f\u7167\u7247)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lungkang_view.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This Google Street View photo was taken at the gate of now abandoned <a href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lungkang.kmz\" target=_blank>Lungkang (\u9f8d\u5ca1) Army Airfield<\/a>.  The brick building behind the trees on the left used to be a hangar when base was active.<\/p>\n<p>Lungkang was inaugurated on May 22, 1959 and served as the base for ROC Army&#8217;s L-19 light observation aircraft.  The following image was taken by a CORONA satellite in 1966:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lungkang_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By 1969, the runway had been extended toward the east.  The extension is clearly visible in the 1969 CORONA image:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lungkang_1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is said that the deactivation of Lungkang was related to the defection of an ROC Army U-6A to China in 1983.  Its close proximity to Chungli (\u4e2d\u58e2) probably also played a role.  Anyway, this is what it looked like in 2002:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/lungkang_2002.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Related links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This blog has several photos taken at <a href=\"http:\/\/tw.myblog.yahoo.com\/jw!jK8eXUuTFihrYSRKK9Z9pY8-\/article?mid=339\" target=_blank>Lungkang&#8217;s inauguration<\/a> in 1959.\n<li>This blogger ventured into the abandoned airfield in 2009 and took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.befuntravel.com.tw\/blog\/ListNoteDetail.php?MessageNo=20602\" target=_blank>these photos<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Google Street View photo was taken at the gate of now abandoned Lungkang (\u9f8d\u5ca1) Army Airfield. The brick building behind the trees on the left used to be a hangar when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,6,203],"tags":[139,48,273,274,286,284,285,287,288],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-history","category-satellite-imagery","tag-corona","tag-google","tag-kh-4a","tag-kh-4b","tag-l-19","tag-lungkang","tag-u-6a","tag-287","tag-288"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}