Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Textron Aviation will deliver seven Skyhawks, 11 Skylanes, two Turbo Skylanes and a Turbo Stationair HD to the Civil Air Patrol by 2027, supporting its
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will pilot one of three F-5 fighter jets during a flyover at this Saturday’s college football game in Tuscaloosa, with a
Dassault Aviation has selected Honeywell Aerospace’s EASy IV flight deck for its Falcon 2000-EASy aircraft, bringing all Falcon platforms onto a common avionics system. Honeywell
American Airlines Group reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion, up 19.3% year over year, even as fuel expense rose $1.9 billion on the back
A new 43 MW renewable energy programme across 20 company sites, alongside a completed LED lighting upgrade, marks a further step in Leonardo’s decarbonisation pathway.
An experienced flight instructor, award-winning aerobatic pilot and international business developer, Narine Melkumjan will lead Tecnam sales for Oriens Aviation in the Netherlands from Breda
The airline’s South Africa country lead points to digital convenience, personalisation and sustainability as the forces reshaping how people choose to fly. As South Africa observes Transport Month in October, Cathay Pacific said evolving traveller expectations around convenience, personalisation and
As more-electric aircraft add avionics, sensors and power electronics, engineers are rethinking cooling as a design decision rather than an afterthought, Honeywell says. Every electrical system added to an aircraft increases the heat that must be managed, and Honeywell Aerospace
An Air New Zealand DHC-8 Q300 descended to 1,022 feet above ground approaching Timaru at night in June 2023 before the crew recovered and landed safely; the Transport Accident Investigation Commission’s final report also found shortcomings in the regulator’s own
2011 – All Nippon Airways flies the first commercial flight of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, from Tokyo to Hong Kong.[1]
2011 – In response to an ongoing industrial dispute with three labour unions, all Qantas aircraft are grounded by Qantas chief executive officer Alan Joyce.[2]
2008 – Qatar Airways launches daily nonstop flights between Doha and New York-JFK using Boeing 777-300ER.
2007 – First flight of the Embraer Lineage 1000
1993 – ValuJet Airlines begins operations.
1983 – Pan Am celebrates the 25th anniversary of their first Boeing 707 with a 707 flight from JFK International Airport to Paris.
1973 – First flight of the Dassault-Breguet/Dornier Alpha Jet
1972 – Igor Sikorsky dies.
1968 – First flight of the Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
1967 – First flight of the BAC Strikemaster
1962 – The last Boeing B-52 off the production line is delivered to the US Air Force.
1958 – The first commercial flight by a Boeing 707 jet airliner takes place, on Pan American World Airways transatlantic service from New York City to Paris.
1958 – Snowy Mountains Project worker Tom Sonter accidentally discovers the wreckage of the Australian National Airways Avro 618 Ten Southern Cloud, which had disappeared without trace in bad weather over the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, with the loss of all eight people on board on March 21, 1931, in Australia‘s first airline disaster.
1952 – A BOAC Comet is badly damaged in an accident during take-off from Rome.
1947 – (October 26-November 7) Rhulin A. Thomas makes the first solo coast-to-coast flight by a deaf pilot. (Calbraith Perry Rodgers was an earlier deaf pilot who flew coast-to-coast in 1911, but was supported by a team on the ground.)
1943 – First flight of the Dornier Do 335 V1 CP+UA
1940 – First flight of the North American P-51 Mustang
1931 – First flight of the de Havilland Tiger Moth prototype G-ABRC
1925 – Schneider Trophy race flown at Baltimore, USA. Won by Jimmy Doolittle (United States) in a Curtiss R3C at 374.2 km/h (232.6 mph).
1922 – The first landing is made on USS Langley by Lt Cdr Geoffrey DeChevalier in an Aeromarine 39.
1909 – Marie Marvingt pilots a balloon across the North Sea and the English Channel from Europe to England.
1907 – Henry Farman sets a world powered heavier-than-air distance record of 771 m (2,530 ft).
