2015 Event Airplane debris is found off the coast of France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean; officials believe the debris is from a Boeing 777 and may be part of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared over a year ago without a trace 2013 Event Former President George W. Bush's airplane, a Gulfstream IV, on its way to Dallas' Love Field , was diverted safely to Louisville International AIrport when the pilot smelled smoke 2011 Event The 'underwear bomber', Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, pleads guilty to attempting to blow up an airplane on Christmas, 2009 1988 Event Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands 1987 Event West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square 1986 Death Marcel Dassault, Bloch, French airplane builder, dies at 94 1986 Death Stephen Stucker, actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies 1982 Event Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash 1978 Event John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston 1977 Death Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82 1972 Death George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash 1971 Event Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident 1970 Event John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane 1970 Event World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight 1969 Event Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness 1969 Event North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above Japanese sea 1968 Death Donald L Hall, airplane designer (Spirit of St. Louis), dies at 69 1967 Event "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5 1965 Event Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms 1962 Death Frederick Handley Page, designer of 1st big airplane (40 seats), dies 1961 Event 1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba 1958 Event 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas, Texas 1958 Death Earnest H Heinkel, German airplane builder (WW II), dies at 70 1957 Event Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000 1956 Event 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek 1956 Birthday Lorna Patterson, Whittier California, actress, Airplane, Pvt Benjamin 1955 Event 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale, California 1955 Birthday Julie Hagerty, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actress, Airplane, Princesses 1955 Event 1st magnesium jet airplane flies 1954 Event Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened 1952 Event 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole 1951 Event 1st missle to intercept an airplane, White Sands, New Mexico 1950 Birthday David Leisure, actor, Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest 1950 Birthday Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun 1949 Birthday Mickey Thomas, rock vocalist, Jefferson Airplane, Starship 1947 Event Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose," a large wooden airplane 1947 Birthday David Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret 1947 Birthday Robert Hays, Bethesda, Maryland, actor, Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous 1947 Event Convair Liner, 1st U.S. twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested 1945 Event Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building 1945 Event 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California 1944 Event Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight 1944 Birthday Jack Casady, born in Washington D.C., rock bassist, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane 1944 Event 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse 1943 Event RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 1942 Birthday Paul Kantner, born in San Francisco, California, rock singer/guitarist, Jefferson Airplane 1941 Event Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck 1940 Birthday Jorma Kaukonen, Washington D.C., rock guitarist, Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna 1940 Event Airplane manufacturer in Woolston bombed, 30 killed 1940 Death Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies 1940 Event 1st U.S. telecast from an airplane, New York City 1939 Death Anthony H G Fokker, Dutch airplane builder (Spider), dies at 49 1937 Event 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca 1936 Birthday Chad Everett, born in South Bend, Indiana, actor, Medical Center, Airplane II 1936 Event 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire 1935 Event 1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York 1934 Event 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it 1933 Event 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il 1933 Event 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest 1930 Event 1st nonstop airplane flight from New York to Panama 1930 Event 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to U.S. (37 hours) 1930 Death Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52 1930 Event 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot 1930 Event 1st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda 1927 Event 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii 1925 Death Clement Ader, French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84 1924 Event 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java) 1922 Event Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy 1922 Event 1st airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. 1919 Event 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London) 1919 Event Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam 1919 Birthday Robert Stack, born in born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane 1918 Event 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France 1918 Event 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson 1917 Birthday Pape John Creech, rocker, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane 1916 Birthday Howard Koch, producer/director, Frankenstein, Airplane II 1915 Event Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit 1914 Event 1st airplane flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco 1913 Event Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego) 1913 Event Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) 1913 Event Tiny Broadwick is 1st woman to parachute from an airplane 1913 Birthday Lloyd Bridges, born in San Leandro, California, actor, Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane 1912 Event 1st U.S. postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued 1912 Event Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B. A. Fiske 1912 Event Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Event Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Event Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane 1912 Event J. Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph - 161.29 kph 1911 Event Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of U.S. by airplane (84 days) 1911 Event Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (84 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17) 1911 Event Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown 1911 Event 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego 1911 Event 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF 1910 Event 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va 1910 Event Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight 1910 Event 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France) 1910 Event Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude 1909 Event Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m 1909 Event AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m 1909 Event Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s 1909 Event France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel 1909 Event Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Netherlands (Belgium count De Lambert) 1909 Event 1st U.S. airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 1908 Event Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hour airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va 1908 Event Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium) 1908 Event Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane 1908 Event 1st passenger flight in an airplane 1906 Event 1st airplane flight in Europe 1904 Event 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes 1904 Event Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight 1903 Event Wright brothers obtain airplane patent 1900 Birthday George Antheil, Trenton, New Jersey, composer, Airplane Sonata 1894 Birthday Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder, Ilyushin 1893 Birthday Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot 1892 Birthday Marcel Dassault, French airplane builder 1889 Birthday [Richard] Stafford Cripps, English minister of airplane manufacturing, 1942 - 1945 1872 Birthday Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel 1872 Birthday Edmund Rumpler, Austria, auto/airplane builder
