1919 Event 1st advanced monoplane airliner flight (Junkers F13) 1913 Event Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) 1909 Event 1st U.S. monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, New York) 1903 Event Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)