MILITARY INFORMATION: CHINESE COMMUNIST AVIATION SCHOOL AT MISHAN (132-06,45-35)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000900650010-4
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2003
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 1, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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Caanunist authorities have kept the activities of the Mishan Aviation ciool a.
strict secret. Outsiders merely know of it as the 61 Corps. The schoo was
started early in 1946. The principal (?commanding officer?) is CI4ANG Chien-kun
op c ). With Soviet assistance, CHAPIG, who arrived in Manchuria from
Yenan October 1945, took over 46 Japanese planes in the T'unghua (125-57..41-43)
area. In February 1946 he was called to Mishan and became principal of the avia-
tion school which was established shortly after that time.
?. There were (?have been a total of?) 259 students under training at L.ishan. Two
thirds of the students are natives of Shantung and are grades tes of the Communist
Shantung Anti-Japanese College. The first class at Mishan, numbering 41 students,
graduated in August 1946. The second class has (had?) 76 students. A fifth
class has started training. There are 28 instructors, 11 are Soviets and the others'
are Japanese and Koreans. Interpreters for the Russian, 1nglish and Japanese
languages are all Chinese. The class in .- chanics.'.attended by source, was not
introduced until the second class was organized.
Join the Communists in Yenan.
`3. Text books used are translations from Russian and Japanese. They include:
Princi.Qf.i of Aviation, Naviaat4on Instruction, Physics" 'echa ca, as well as
Political books and Commt}n et Doctrine.
!.. There are 90 planes - Zeros and twin engine bombers - but only 49 singe engine
planes and 5 bombers are operable and they are in poor condition. The=. are nu-
merous accidents and students are reluctant to take off. Actually, grwuuates
lack experience because they fly very little; some students never take off before
they graduate.
5. The following persons connected with the school have returned from Soviet train-
ing schools;
a. CHA!+ Chien-kun alias CIIANG Tzu-cheng the principal. He is a
native of Shansi, a graduate of the third class of the Whangpoo I..il;.t ry Acad-
emy and trained at the Canton Aviation School. He was sent to the USSR by the
Nationalist government and stayed there from 1927-1939. Upon his return he be-
came an instructor in an aviation school in Chengta. He..eft that in 1941 to
b. LIU Chien-hsun () is pilot instructor and squadron caa^r