The outbreak of the war with the Japanese caused it to be relocated to Kunming in the southern province of Yunnan in 1937. The following year the school was officially called by its present name, the Chinese Air Force Academy. After the final defeat of the Japanese forces in 1945, the school was once again able to relocate to its site at Chien Ch'iao near Hangchou.
航校在抗戰時遷往昆明，民國廿七年正式定名為「空軍軍官學校」，勝利後復校筧橋，隨後在民國卅八年遷來岡山現址。