Tag: privateaviation
May 15, 2026
First Airline Stewardess
Church was a licensed pilot, so she originally applied to Boeing Air Transport hoping to become a pilot, but women...
May 15, 2026
Amelia Earhart’s Non-Stop Flight from Mexico City to Newark in New Jersey in 14 hours and 19 min
The aircraft was the same model Earhart had used for several of her record-setting flights. The Lockheed Vega was a...
April 10, 2026
Charles Lindbergh Became the Chief Pilot for Robertson Aircraft Corporation
Lindbergh and his team completed survey flights around this date before officially inaugurating the mail service on April 15, 1926. In...
March 27, 2026
Reduced Vertical Separation Minima (RVSM) Phase 1
RVSM is an aviation standard that reduces the required vertical separation between aircraft from 2,000 feet to 1,000 feet between...
March 13, 2026
First Pilot to Fly a Million Miles in a Jet Airplane
In 1959, Garlow was flying a jet-prop Vickers Viscount, which Capital Airlines first put into service on July 26, 1955. ...
February 27, 2026
Rudolph W. “Shorty” Schroeder Reached World-Record Height of 33,114 Feet
On February 27, 1920,U.S. Major Rudolph W. “Shorty” Schroeder reached a world-record height of 33,114 feet in a LePere airplane...
November 21, 2025
Gulfstream G550 Set Three Transcontinental Speed Records between Cities in Asia and the United States of America
On November 21, 2005, Gulfstream Aerospace announced that a Gulfstream G550 had set three speed records. The first of the two...
November 14, 2025
First Anniversary of the Gulfstream G280’S Entry into Service
Gulfstream Aerospace Corp first announced the G280 on Oct. 5, 2008, and its first flight took place on Dec. 11,...
October 17, 2025
The First Omnirange Airways
Before Global Positioning System (GPS), airplanes in the United States relied on VORs to fly and in poor weather pilots...
October 10, 2025