On this day, 79 years ago, on June 26, 1946 (May 27, 1946, the lunar calendar), Liu Shanben flew a plane to revolt. Liu Shanben (1915-1968.3.10) was born in Bozhuang, Changle County, Shandong Province. In 1932, he was admitted to the Affiliated Middle School of Peking University, and in 1935, he was admitted to Hangzhou Jianqiao Aviation School. After graduation, he was assigned to the Eighth Brigade of the Kuomintang Air Force as a combat staff officer and captain pilot. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, this long-range bombing force attacked the Japanese army. In 1943, he was sent to the United States to study. In the spring of 1945, he passed through India and detour Karachi to "stand by on site." In the spring of 1945, he was allowed to fly back to China. On June 26, 1946, he took advantage of the opportunity of traveling from Chengdu to Kunming to transport communications equipment handed over by the US military to cleverly get rid of ground control, fly a plane to revolt, and fly to Yan 'an, setting a precedent for the Kuomintang Air Force to fly a plane to revolt. Mao Zedong and Zhu De attended the welcoming meeting in person, and Commander-in-Chief Zhu invited him to visit his cave. Under his influence, more than 100 people in the Kuomintang Air Force flew 42 aircraft to revolt. Premier Zhou Enlai repeatedly stated that "Comrade Liu Shanben was the leader of the Kuomintang Air Force Uprising." On September 22, 1946, Chairman Mao Zedong met Liu Shanben in his office and asked him to go to Northeast China to build the first aviation school, and took a group photo with him. In September 1946, he went to Northeast China to participate in the establishment of the country's first aviation school (Lao Aviation School) and was appointed as vice principal. In February 1949, he joined the Communist Party of China. At the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, he piloted the plane and accepted the inspection. In the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, as a commander of a certain division of the Aviation Corps of the China People's Volunteer Army, he once organized the first night attack operation of the People's Air Force and used the combat methods of electronic countermeasures and illuminated bombing for the first time. He successively served as an aviation instructor at Yan 'an Headquarters, vice president of Northeast Lao Aviation School, president of the First Aviation School, director of the Navigation Department of the Air Force Academy, deputy commander of the Fourth Mixed Brigade of the East China Air Force, commander of an aviation division, deputy director of the Air Force Military Training Department, and deputy education officer of the Air Force Academy. He made certain contributions to the creation, growth and growth of the New China People's Air Force, and was awarded the First Class Liberation Medal. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of senior colonel. In February 1964, he was awarded the rank of Major General of the Air Force of the People's Liberation Army of China. He is a member of the First, Second and Third National Defense Commissioners, a representative of the First Plenary Session of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Second and Third National Committees, and a representative of the First, Second and Third National People's Congresses. He was brutally persecuted during the "Cultural Revolution" and died on March 10, 1968 at the age of 53. In October 1975, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China approved his atonement, and his ashes were placed in the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery.