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On this day, 104 years ago, the Royal Air Force was founded, creating the first independent air force in the world. ...

Jean Batten was a pioneering woman in aviation. Her flying and navigational skills, along with her bravery, helped her b ...

Delta Air Lines was founded as Huff Daland Dusters with a small fleet of crop dusters. Now, 97 years later, the airline ...

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Today marks the 93rd anniversary of one of the world’s oldest airlines, Poland’s flag carrier, LOT Polish Ai...

In the early 1950s, two women pilots, American Jacqueline Cochran and her French rival Jacqueline Auriol, competed to be...

As the aviation industry is preparing to celebrate International Pilots' Day, we take a look back at some outstandin ...

On September 15, 1916, the French submarine Foucault was sunk by two Austrian seaplanes, becoming the first submarine in ...

New York Airways provided a dream service – avoiding traffic and traveling through New York much faster while ...

British Airways is celebrating centenary with a series of heritage liveries. Since February 2019, BA is rolling out airc ...

German Air Shipping Company is often accounted as the first civil air company in the world. Having flown for the first t ...

On November 3, 1950, Air India Flight 245 crashed on the west side of Mont Blanc, killing all 48 people on board.&n ...

One of the most captivating mysteries in aviation history – the disappearance of Amelia Earhart – recently h ...

March 8, 2018, marks a very special day for women in aviation – exactly 108 years ago Raymonde de Laroche got her ...

On January 22, 1970, Captain Robert M. Weeks and crew flew the Pan American World Airways Boeing 747-121, N73 ...

On November 14, 1965 Captains Fred Lester Austin, Jr., and Harrison Finch, two retired Trans World Airlines pilots, took...

On April 29, 1988, Boeing test pilots James C. Loesch and Kenneth Higgins take the new Boeing 747-400, serial numb...

On April 17, 1956 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation rolled out the very first production F-104A Starfighter, 55-2956, at Air ...

On the 17th of April 1941, Igor Sikorsky’s Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter went through various rotor configurat ...

On April 16, 1912, an American aviatrix Harriet Quimby flew across the English Channel in a Blériot XI monoplane. ...

On the 13th of April 1960, Major Robert M. White, USAF, made the first flight of an X-15 by an Air Force test pilot. ...

On the 1st of April 1939, Mitsubishi Kokuki K.K. (Mitsubishi Aircraft Company) Chief Test Pilot Katsuzo Shima made the f ...

On the 28th of March 1910, Henri Marie Léonce Fabre (29 November 1882 – 30 June 1984) flew his Hydroavian , ...