·        historical symposium were SAAHF Founding Board Member and former USN CINCPAC, Admiral Richard C. Macke and SAAHF Executive Director Jeff Greene.  The Symposium was sponsored by the Organizing Committee of the Chinese Cultural Ties Project, and organization that represents five major government ministries.

 ·        In May 2002, SAAHF Founding Board Members; Brig. General Steve Ritchie, USAF (ret), Major General James Marshall, USAF (ret), Colonel Harald Fischer, USAF (ret) and Jeff Greene were invited to participate in the opening ceremonies of the Sino American Cultural Hump Flight Foundation.  Supported by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, and based upon the accomplishments of the American and Chinese airmen who participated in the Second World War Hump Airlift, this new foundation will work to build stronger cultural ties between the United States and China.  Also participating in the event was a large delegation of veterans of the Hump Pilot’s Association and their families.

 ·        In mid-October 2002, the SAAHF was a co-sponsored, with the Chinese State Council Information Office, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington D.C. and the Yunan People’s Government Information Office, of an exhibition of Second World War photography, titled “The Memory of History,” from Chinese archival sources at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C.  The opening ceremonies of this event featured a symposium that was presented by the China Foundation For International and Strategic Studies and the National Committee on United States-China Relations and featured American and Chinese veterans who spoke of there war-time experiences, and a wreath laying ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery. 

 ·        Immediately following the events in Washington D. C., The SAAHF and several of its Founding Board members participated with the Chinese State Council Information Office and the Yunan People’s Government Information Office in a ceremony that unveiled a statue honoring an American “Hump Pilot” who was killed while flying war-time supplies into China.  The ceremony was held at the President George H. W. Bush Library, at Texas A & M University.  Both events were precursors to the Summit between President George W. Bush and Chinese President Jiang Zemin at the Bush family ranch in Crawford, Texas.

 ·        On September 19 – 21, 2003, the SAAHF coordinated and co-sponsored with U.S. National Museum of the Pacific War, in Fredericksburg, Texas in the presentation of a two day symposium on the history of the China, Burma, India Theater of Operations, the Symposium featured a large number CBI veterans and respected historians of the Second World War, many of whom are Founding Members of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation.

·        On October 18, 2003, the SAAHF coordinated with the staff of the U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB, in Dayton Ohio and the Chinese State Council Information Office and the Yunan People’s Government Information Office for the exhibition of “The Memory of History” Second World War Photographic Exhibit at the U.S. Air Force Museum.  The exhibit will be China’s participation in the U.S. Air Force Museum’s year-long, 100th Anniversary of Flight activities.