What was the first air route in the history of China?

On April 24th, 1920, the first civil aviation route in China, the Beijing-Tianjin section of the Beijing-Shanghai route, was successfully tested. After World War I, countries all over the world competed to establish aviation. At that time, the Beiyang warlord government also began to pilot civil aviation. 1965438+In March 2009, the Ministry of Communications of Beiyang Government established the Aviation Preparation Office, and began to purchase foreign aircraft and recruit foreign pilots. In April, two small Avero aircraft and six large Hendali Petji aircraft were purchased from Britain, and it is planned to organize civil aviation routes between Beijing and Guangdong, Beijing and Shanghai, Beijing and Sichuan, Beijing and Kazakhstan, and Beijing and Cullen (now Ulaanbaatar). A year later, the "Organizing Aviation Affairs Office" plans to open the Beijing-Tianjin section of the Beijing-Shanghai route first. The test flight was successful on April 24th 1920, and it officially set sail on May 7th. On May 10, an article in Shenbao entitled "The First Passenger Aviation between Beijing and Tianjin" described the scene on the sailing day: "After Beijing proposed to fly to Tianjin, the editor-in-chief of the English Beijing-Tianjin Times received a telegram from Mr. Ba, the manager of Beijing Fu Company, to fly to Beijing. During his trip to Beijing and Tianjin, Mr. Wu Jun took a train to Beijing on Thursday evening, and Rosty Yi went to Nanyuan, and then picked up the plane. The mechanic is Mai Shaozuo. At 9: 45, all the guests began to take their seats. At 9: 49, the plane started. This plane is Hendali Page from Britain, carrying *** 15 passengers, including Ashton Jun, British Minister to China, and three representatives from the Ministry of Communications. When the plane took off, it was unusually calm, rising to 242 feet and flying southeast. " After flying 1 hour, it arrived at Tianjin boundary at 10: 38. Three minutes later, the plane flew over Beiyang University. After another two minutes, the speed of the plane began to decrease. 10: 44, the plane flew over the concession, landed at the racecourse on 10: 49, and flew from Beijing to Tianjin, flying for 1 hour. Since this is the first flight of civil aviation, after the plane arrived in Tianjin, many people went to the racecourse to welcome these brave warriors who dared to fly, and the chairman of the horse racing club specially welcomed the tourists who dared to fly. On the afternoon of May 7th, the plane also flew around Tianjin twice with Tianjin tourists, inviting more than 10 guests each time. By 6: 40 pm, the plane returned to Beijing with tourists from Beijing to Tianjin. The opening of this route is the earliest civil aviation route in China. Although it was suspended for a short time, as the first civil air transport line, it has been recorded in the history of China Airlines.

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