Moon Fun Chin

{{Short description|Taiwanese aviator (1913–2023)}}

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|birth_place = Taishan, Guangdong, China

|death_date = {{death date|2023|5|9|1913|4|13|mf=y}}
(aged {{age in years and days|1913|4|13|2023|5|9}})

|death_place = Hillsborough, California, U.S.

|occupation = Aviator, businessman

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Moon Fun Chin ({{zh|t=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.{{cite news |author1=Han Cheung |title=Taiwan in Time: A daring aviator's storied career |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2024/05/19/2003818066 |access-date=19 May 2024 |work=Taipei Times |date=19 May 2024}}

Chin piloted the plane to transport Jimmy Doolittle after the American air raid on Tokyo in 1941, and also the executive plane to transport Chiang Kai-shek, Sun Fo, Dai Li, T. V. Soong, Chiang Ching-kuo and other senior officials. 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.{{cite news|url=http://sf.worldjournal.com/pages/full_sfnews/push?article-%E9%99%B3%E6%96%87%E5%AF%AC+%E5%82%B3%E5%A5%87%E4%BA%BA%E7%89%A9%E9%9D%92%E5%8F%B2%E7%95%99%E5%90%8D%20&id=5109254|title=陳文寬 傳奇人物青史留名|author=王慶偉|location=San Jose, California|publisher=World Journal|date=2009-12-11|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728170143/http://sf.worldjournal.com/pages/full_sfnews/push?article-%E9%99%B3%E6%96%87%E5%AF%AC+%E5%82%B3%E5%A5%87%E4%BA%BA%E7%89%A9%E9%9D%92%E5%8F%B2%E7%95%99%E5%90%8D%20&id=5109254|archive-date=2014-07-28}}{{cite news|url=http://sf.worldjournal.com/view/full_sfnews/18740238/article-%E7%99%BE%E6%AD%B2%E3%80%8C%E6%9C%88%E4%BA%AE%E9%99%B3%E3%80%8D-%E8%BC%89%E9%81%8E%E5%85%A9%E4%BD%8D%E8%94%A3%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1?instance=sfppl|title=百歲「月亮陳」 載過兩位蔣總統|author=陳運璞|location=San Francisco|publisher=World Journal|date=2012-05-27|work=世界新聞網|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728171646/http://sf.worldjournal.com/view/full_sfnews/18740238/article-%E7%99%BE%E6%AD%B2%E3%80%8C%E6%9C%88%E4%BA%AE%E9%99%B3%E3%80%8D-%E8%BC%89%E9%81%8E%E5%85%A9%E4%BD%8D%E8%94%A3%E7%B8%BD%E7%B5%B1?instance=sfppl|archive-date=2014-07-28}}

Chin died on May 9, 2023, at the age of 110 years, 26 days.{{cite news |title=曾載過杜立德、蔣介石！「航空教父」陳文寬逝世 享嵩壽110歲 |url=https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/4297822 |access-date=11 May 2023 |newspaper=Liberty Times |date=11 May 2023}}