Founding Major General Fang Huai died and was the principal of the Second Civil Aviation School of the Civil Aviation Administration of the Central Military Commission

China Civil Aviation News, China Civil Aviation Network News: Comrade Fang Huai, founding major general and former deputy commander of the Air Force of the Wuhan Military Region, died in Wuhan on February 16, 2019 at the age of 102. Comrade Fang Huai was the first president of the Second Civil Aviation School of the Civil Aviation Administration of the Central Military Commission (the predecessor of the Civil Aviation University of China).

In 1917, Fang Huai was born in Yudu, Jiangxi. In 1932, he joined the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, joined the Communist Party of China in 1933, and successively served as an officer of the field hospital of the First Red Army, a youth officer of the RegimentAl political department, the chief of the youth section of the division's political department, the deputy chief of the organization section of the division's political department, and the director of the youth department of the regiment's political department. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Fang Huai learned to fly in the Xinjiang Aviation Corps, and was one of the "aviation fires" and the first generation of pilots of our army. During the Liberation War, he participated in the establishment of our army's first aviation school in the northeast, and successively served as an assistant of the training office of the aviation school, the captain of the fourth flight brigade, and the director of the aviation school's office in Shenyang. On October 1, 1949, Fang Huai led a flight echelon to fly over Tiananmen Square to participate in the military parade ceremony of the founding ceremony. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Fang Huai successively served as director of the Aircraft Navigation Division of the Civil Aviation Bureau of the Central Military Commission, director of the Operations Division of the Air Defense Force Headquarters, director of the Navigation Affairs Department and Director of the Telecommunications Department of the Civil Aviation Bureau of the Central Military Commission, manager of the civil aviation Chinese, commander of the Air Force Division, deputy commander, and commander of the Army, and deputy commander of the Air Force of the Wuhan Military Region.

In 1951, Chairman Mao Zedong issued an order appointing Fang Huai as the president of the Second Civil Aviation School of the Civil Aviation Administration of the Central Military Commission (the predecessor of the Civil Aviation University of China). In 1955, Fang Huai was awarded the rank of major general. He was awarded the Order of August 1 of the Second Class, the Order of Independence and Freedom of the Second Class, the Liberation Medal of the Second Class, and the Medal of Merit of the Red Star of the First Class. In 1983, General Fang Huai left for retirement.