Shanghai Longhua Airport, then called Shanghai Lunghwa Airport, was a converted general aviation airport and PLAAF airfield located south of downtown Shanghai, China, on the bank of the Huangpu River. It opened in the early 1920s and served as the city's airport until the 1950s when Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport opened. Thereafter, it was one of two general aviation airports serving Shanghai and also served as an emergency landing site for police, fire and rescue operations southwest of the city. The airport was eventually closed at 1966, and the airport grounds were slowly built over though a period of between 1993 and 2016.
Aerial view of the airport, 1920s
Aerial view of the airport, 1931
Rebecca Chan Chung at Longhua Airport, in front of a CNAC Curtiss C-46 (c.1947)
China National Aviation Corporation
The China National Aviation Corporation was a Chinese airline which was nationalized after the Chinese Communist Party took control in 1949, and merged into the People's Aviation Company of China (中國人民航空公司) in 1952. It was a major airline under the Nationalist government of China until the 90s.
CNAC pilots with a captured Shōwa L2D3 or L2D3-L, c. 1945
The former Central Air Transport Convair 240 on display at the Beijing Aviation Museum.
A DC-3 repainted in CNAC livery at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in December 2019