Moon Fun Chin

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chin.

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. Chin was the deputy director of the aviation team of the China National Aviation Corporation, and later the director and deputy manager of the aviation team of Central Air Transport.^[1]

Moon Fun Chin
Born	(1913-04-13)April 13, 1913 Taishan, Guangdong, China
Died	(2023-05-09)May 9, 2023 (aged 110 years, 26 days) Hillsborough, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Aviator, businessman

Moon Fun Chin
Traditional Chinese	陳文寬
Simplified Chinese	陈文宽
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chén Wénkuān Yue: Cantonese Jyutping can4 man4 fun1

Chin piloted the plane to transport Jimmy Doolittle after the American air raid on Tokyo in 1942, and also the executive plane to transport Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Fo, Dai Li, T. V. Soong, Chiang Ching-kuo and other senior officials. He had also flown for the heavy-airlift supply line operation between China, Burma and India, known as The Hump. In 1951, together with Dai Anguo, Cai Kefei and others, he co-founded TransAsia Airways in Taiwan. In 1983, China National Industrial Group bought 70% of the shares of TransAsia Airways, and Chin returned to the United States, this time moving to San Francisco, California. He resided in Hillsborough, California.^[2][3][4]

Chin died on May 9, 2023, at the age of 110 years, 26 days.^[5]