Kai Tak Runway
Kai Tak's first runway was a grass strip and the first tarmac, an east-west runway, was 457 metres long in 1939. A series of extensions were added over the years:
- 1940s - 1,371 metres runway added by the Japanese
- 1956 - 2,194 metres north-south runway added
- 1970 - 2,541 metres
- 1975 - 3,358 metres
- post 1975 - single asphalt runway 13/31 - 3,390 metres (or 11,122 feet)
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