Southwest Aviation Corporation
1933-1938
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Southwest Aviation Corporation
1933-1938
Lennart Andersson
The two largest airline companies in
China during the 1930s are fairly well
known: the China National Aviation
Corporation (CNAC) and the Eurasia
Aviation Corporation (Eurasia). The
former was Chinese-American and the
latter Chinese-German and both employed
foreign pilots. The third of the pre-war
airline companies, the Southwest
Aviation Corporation (SWAC), was one
hundred percent Chinese, employed only
Chinese personnel and had no foreign
part-owners.
SWAC operated mainly with small cabin
aircraft that seated just three or four
passengers. It's existence relied
heavily on subsidies from the local
Kwangtung and Kwangsi governments and it
would probably not have been allowed to
operate the routes in south China if
these provinces had not been strong
enough to resist, at least to a certain
level, the political and military
pressure from the Central Government in
Nanking. The Japanese attack on China in
1937 changed the game plan completely
and finally forced SWAC out of business.
This is the company's history.
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