China Flying Dragon General Aviation Harbin Y-12E - Flight from Dalian (DLC) to Changhai (CNI)

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Harbin Y-12E / B-3756
China Flying Dragon General Aviation / 中国飞龙通航
FD5904 - Dalian (DLC) to Changhai (CNI) - 2015 June 5 (31 minutes flight time)
FD5901 - Changhai (CNI) to Dalian (DLC) - 2015 June 6 (45 minutes flight time)
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This flight links Dalian's International Airport to Changhai County, which is situated on an archipelago of islands roughly 100km northeast of Dalian's city centre. This was one of the only regularly scheduled routes in China operated using the Harbin Y-12, but since 2021 the route has been operated by a Cessna Caravan instead. Currently, there are no scheduled Y-12 routes in China, though China Flying Dragon's newer Y-12Fs have shown up on sporadic services to Mohe and Heihe in Heilongjiang province in the past year.

The flight is one of two links from Changhai County to the mainland, the other being a daily ferry and receives government subsidy. Thanks to the subsidy, tickets for this flight (in 2015) were only 160 RMB each way including airport taxes. At that time, tickets and schedules were not available online, but could be purchased at both airports on the day of departure with a handwritten paper ticket and boarding pass provided.

The outbound flight had just one other passenger, but there was an instructor of some sort who stood for the entire flight looking over the shoulders of the two pilots. The return flight the next morning had a higher load factor. There was no flight attendant or service provided during the short flights.

There were plans for Changhai Airport to receive a runway extension (by filling in some of the adjacent ocean) to allow for 737 service, but this has yet to come to fruition. The runway remains a short 2789 ft/850 m.