Beijing Nanyuan Airport
[citation needed] After the Xinhai Revolution, Yuan Shikai, who followed suggestions from the French advisers, established the first official flying academy in China in 1913, Nanyuan Flying Academy, with Li Ruyan as chief, and purchased 10 French Caudron trainer aircraft for 300,000 silver dollars.[citation needed][vague] In the brief episode of the Manchu Restoration led by Qing loyalist general Zhang Xun in July 1917, then-Premier Duan Qirui ordered a Caudron Type D aircraft piloted by Pan Shizhong (潘世忠) and bombardier Du Yuyuan (杜裕源) of the country's fledgling air force based in Nanyuan to fly to and drop bombs over the Forbidden City; three bombs were dropped, causing the death of a eunuch but otherwise minor damage.[6] During the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Army extended the airport, upgraded its air traffic control facilities, and changed the name to Nanyuan military camp.[8] Nanyuan Airport opened a new terminal in September 2013 with a designed passenger handling capacity of 6 million people.[citation needed] Nanyuan ceased civil operation on 25 September 2019 after all commercial passenger flights were moved to the newly opened Beijing Daxing International Airport.