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Taipei Songshan Airport is a mid-size commercial airport and military airbase located in Songshan, Taipei, Taiwan. The airport covers an area of 182ha.The civilian section of Songshan Airport, officially Taipei International Airport, has scheduled flights serving domestically in Taiwan, and also to Mainland China, South Korea and Japan, with the vast majority of international flights out of the Taipei area served by Taoyuan International Airport.Songshan Airport is also the base of certain Republic of China Air Force units as part of the Songshan Air Force Base. The Songshan Base Command's main mission is to serve the President and Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).HistoryThe airport was built in 1936 with its origins as a Japanese military airbase, the Matsuyama Airdrome, during Japanese rule. After World War II, in 1946, it was taken over by the Republic of China Air Force. Before the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the airport provided flight routes between Shanghai and Taipei, occasionally via Fuzhou.
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