History Civil aviation in China

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the rosamonde biplane, first indigenously designed , flown aircraft in china


in 1939 @ tsing hua university cadre of students constructed wind tunnel of frank wattendorf, graduate of harvard, mit , caltech. assigned tsing hua aeronautical research institute under direction of y. h. ku.


before chinese civil war, there republic of china joint ventures pan american world airways , lufthansa. in 1946 civil air transport (air america) founded general claire l. chennault , whiting willauer relief of roc. result of chinese civil war, communist party of china took control of mainland china, , civil air transport moved along kuomintang (kmt)-controlled roc government taiwan.


in 1949 new government established aviation authority , operator general administration of civil aviation of china.


in 1987, china s government separated airline operations of general administration of civil aviation of china number of state-owned enterprises. regulatory role retained general administration of civil aviation of china known civil aviation administration of china.


in 2004, turnover of airfreight reached 7.18 billion ton-km, passenger turnover 178.2 billion person-km, , volume of freight traffic 2.767 million tons. china had total of 1,279 civil flight routes, 1,035 of them domestic routes reaching large , medium-sized cities, , 244 of them international, connecting china more 70 cities overseas.


china s passenger airline industry dominated 3 state-owned airlines; air china, china southern airlines , china eastern airlines. there limited competition private operators in commercial passenger market such spring airlines state owned operators have political , financial wherewithal central government lead market.








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