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Nanchang Laoyingfang Airport

Nanchang Laoyingfang Airport (Chinese: 南 昌 老 营 房 机 场 ) was a
Nanchang Laoyingfang
military air base and the first airport in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi
Airport
Province, China. Constructed in 1929, it was one of the four major air bases
南昌老营房机场
of the Republic of China Air Force in the 1930s. Laoyingfang was closed
after 1949 and its site has been redeveloped for use by the Jiangxi IATA: none · ICAO: none
Provincial Government and Jiangxi Normal University. Summary
Airport type Closed (former
History military)
Location Nanchang, Jiangxi,
Laoyingfang Airport was opened in November 1929, the first airport in
China
Nanchang, the capital of China's Jiangxi Province. It was very small at first,
and was expanded a year later.[1] Opened November 1929
Closed After 1949
During Chiang Kai-shek's Encirclement Campaigns against the Chinese
Soviet Republic, the rebel communist base in southern Jiangxi, the airport Coordinates 28°40′33″N
was greatly expanded in 1933 and served as the base for more than 200 115°54′36″E
Kuomintang war planes.[1] It became one of the four major air bases of the Map
Republic of China Air Force, together with Hangzhou Jianqiao, Nanjing
Dajiaochang, and Luoyang Beijiao.[2]

As Laoyingfang's proximity to the city centre impeded frequent military

operations, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the construction of the even larger
Sanjiadian Airport (later known as Qingyunpu Airport) in Qingyunpu, then
in the far outskirts of Nanchang.[2] The new air base was opened in the Laoyingfang
spring of 1935.[1]

In 1933, Chiang Kai-shek signed an agreement with Italian Prime Minister Location of the airport in China
Benito Mussolini to establish a joint venture in China to manufacture
airplanes. The company, called Sino-Italian National Aircraft Works (SINAW), was established in 1934 in Nanchang,
with factories located at both Laoyingfang and Sanjiadian airports.[2] It became the predecessor of Hongdu Aviation,
one of China's major aircraft manufacturers.[2]

After the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, SINAW factories were severely damaged by Japanese
aerial bombing.[2] Nanchang was later occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army, which used Laoyingfang as an air
base. It was likely from Laoyingfang that the Unit 731 launched germ warfare against the city of Changde in nearby
Hunan province.[3]

In September 1945, after the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, China Airlines started to operate
scheduled Shanghai–Fuzhou–Nanchang–Hankou flights from Laoyingfang Airport. It became a dedicated civil airport
in May 1948.[1]

After the Communist Party won the Chinese Civil War and established the People's Republic of China in 1949,
Laoyingfang Airport fell into disuse and Xiangtang Airport was built as Nanchang's main airport for both military and
civil flights.[1] The site for Laoyingfang was redeveloped, part of which is occupied by the Jiangxi Provincial
Government, and its former runway is now a street on the campus of Jiangxi Normal University.[3]

References
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1. "1956年以前南昌曾先后建7处机场 其中两座系日军所建" (http://jiangxi.jxnews.com.cn/system/2013/09/30/012687

981.shtml). Jiangxi News. 2013-09-30. Retrieved 2018-09-28.
2. Zhu Weiguo 朱伟国 (2015-09-01). "历史的记忆" (http://www.hongdu.com.cn/xwxx/233.html). Hongdu Aviation.
Retrieved 2018-10-02.
3. "追击途中-南昌" (http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2003-08-17/00521557411.shtml). Sina. 2003-08-17. Retrieved
2018-10-01.

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