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1994 BAM "Bob" Schreiner, airline owner (S Aviation Group), dies at 79
1994 Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64 1991 Leigh Watson, U.S. aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93 1987 Roger Lewis, aviation executive (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75 1981 Donald W. Douglas, U.S. aviation pionieer/builder, dies at 88 1977 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife 1963 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies 1958 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84 1955 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70 1955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75 1953 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64 1948 Orville Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies at 76 1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect 1947 U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago 1937 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43 1936 Richard Bach, born in Oak Park, Illinois, writer, author, best-sellers include, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah', genres include aviation, fantasy, philosophy 1936 Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro, New Jersey 1935 Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36 1930 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52 1929 Johan N Block, aviation pioneer, Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland 1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens 1921 Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies 1921 Peter Horsley, CEO, Osprey Aviation 1912 Wilbur Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies 1912 Roger Lewis, aviation executive, Lockheed, Curtiss Wright, Pan Am 1910 Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies 1899 Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer 1895 Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer, Spitfire 1894 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, Swiss Air 1889 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM 1885 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer 1883 Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer, Antwerp Devil 1880 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer 1879 Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen, WW I 1874 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer, double decker 1808 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law 1785 2 French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident |
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