Airports / China / SQJ
Sanming Shaxian Airport
ZSSM / SQJSanming (Sha), ChinaELEV 830 FT
Field elevation
Nearest alternate
Field standing
74 nm
To the nearest alternate
Liancheng Guanzhishan Airport (LCX).
Overview
Sanming Shaxian Airport (ZSSM / SQJ) sits in Sanming (Sha), China, where it functions as a mid-sized airport. The airport sits 830 feet above sea level. Alongside scheduled airline service, the airport handles a steady flow of private and charter traffic.
No charter operator is headquartered on the field, but operators routinely position aircraft into SQJ for departures. When weather or ramp space demands it, nearby options are Liancheng Guanzhishan Airport (LCX, 74 nm), Nanping Wuyishan Airport (WUS, 77 nm), and Fuzhou Air Base (CN-0149, 84 nm).
Charter pricing from SQJ depends on aircraft category, positioning distance, and trip timing. Compare rated operators or run a route through the cost estimator to gauge pricing from Sanming (Sha).
Field capability
ICAO
ZSSM
IATA
SQJ
FAA / Local
ZSSM
Elevation
830 ft
Coordinates
26.4263° N · 117.8336° E
Airspace
G · GolfClass G — GolfUncontrolled field — no tower. Pilots self-announce and sequence themselves on the common traffic advisory frequency.Source: FAA NASR class airspace
Size
Medium
Scheduled svc
Yes
Elevation vs China fields
state range 6–14,472 ft
At 830 ft, SQJ sits lower than 53% of the 227 China fields on the register.
Access & alternates
Closest alternate fields by great-circle distance — every listing links to its own field brief.
- 74nmLCXLiancheng Guanzhishan AirportLongyan (Liancheng)
- 77nmWUSNanping Wuyishan AirportWuyishan
- 84nmCN-0149Fuzhou Air BaseFuzhou (Cangshan)
- 99nmCN-0152Huian Air BaseQuanzhou (Huian)
- 102nmCN-0158Longtian Air BaseFuzhou (Fuqing)
- 103nmFOCFuzhou Changle International AirportFuzhou (Changle)
Location
Open the full mapZSSM · Sanming Shaxian Airport · Sanming (Sha), China