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Moon Fun Chin (Chinese: 陳文寬; April 13, 1913 – May 9, 2023) was a Chinese-American aviator, businessman and supercentenarian. A native of Taishan, Guangdong, he immigrated to the United States, and obtained a pilot's license there. In 1933, he returned to China for aviation development.
May 9, 2023 · Moon Fun Chin [Pinyin: Chén Wénkuān; Chinese: 陈文宽] (13 April 1913 – 9 May 2023) was a Chinese-born American supercentenarian who was the last surviving pilot of the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC).
May 19, 2024 · A portrait of Chin Moon Fun taken in the 1930s. On March 18, 1954, Chin, who co-owned Foshing Airlines (復興航空, renamed TransAsia in 1992), hurriedly flew one of the company’s two amphibious PBY Catalina planes to the scene.
Who was Captain Moon Chin, and how did that happen? He was the pilot who flew Jimmy Doolittle from Chongqing to Calcutta, first leg of Doolittle’s journey back to the U.S. after leading the famous “Doolittle Raid.”
Captain Moon Fun Chin was never a member of the U.S. military, yet he was awarded four prestigious medals by the U.S. government: The Distinguished Flying Cross, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal (Silver Star), The Air Medal, and The Presidential Unit Citation.
MOON FUN CHIN (April 13, 1913 in China - May 9, 2023 in California) (CNAC 1933 - 1946) (Captain - June 1936) (Hump Flights - XXX)
Moon Fun Chin became one of the most decorated civilian pilot by the US military. Soon after the war, in 1946, he left CNAC to work for China’s Central Aviation Transport Corporation (CATC) as head of operations.
