Today in airline history lists historical airline events that happened on this day around the world.
This collection goes back over 100 years with 6517 + events currently recorded in the airline database. This list gets updated frequently with new airline events that may occur throughout the year.
Some well known events you might see within today in airline history are:
- The Wright brothers successfully taking to the air in 1903 with the first powered aircraft.
- The formation of the longest surviving airline with the same name KLM in 1919.
- BOAC flying the world’s first pure jet service in 1952.
- The first flight of Concorde in 1969.
To view our full list of airline events, please visit our main history page here.
Today in airline history, 11 events from 19th March:
Handley Page Transport operated the first subsidised London to Paris service
United KingdomThe first scheduled jet air service inside the Arctic Circle began as Nordair inaugurates a weekly return service between Montreal, and Resolution Bay, Cornwallis Island
CanadaPacific East Asia Cargo Airlines, formed on 09ct1990, had its AOC was suspended
PhilippinesPamir Airways had it license withdrawn, officially due to the poor safety record
AfghanistanAer Arann announced that it would be changing its corporate name to Stobart Air by the end of 2014
IrelandThe Comorian government suspended the commercial air service license of AB Aviation following a crash on 26Feb2022
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