Today in airline history lists historical airline events that happened on this day around the world.
This collection goes back over 100 years with 7319 + 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, 25 events from 07th July:
Philippine Air Service was established but it was abolished before it started operations
PhilippinesTranscontinental Air Transport inaugurates 48-hour coast-to-coast passenger transportation service, with air travel by day and rail travel by night (>American Airlines)
USAAir Taxis was forced to cease operations due to insufficient revenue or traffic
AustraliaSilver City Airways, operated the world's first cross-Channel air ferry service between Lympne near Folkestone in Kent and Le Touquet, France
United KingdomRene-Fernand Meyer started Air Cameroun as a successor to Regie Air Cameroun
CameroonBIAS (Belgium International Air Services) commenced operations (>BIAS Overseas)
BelgiumAlyeska Air Service, founded by Ken Triplett in 1982 based out of Anchorage was grounded by the FAA
USATruJet received its air operator's certificate for regional operations from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation
IndiaInselAir Aruba, a scheduled carrier based out of Aruba Reina Beatrix International (AUA) was declared bankrupt
ArubaYangtze River Express, having rebranded to Yangtze River Airlines, officially rebranded itself as Suparna Airlines
ChinaAkasa Air cleared a major hurdle by receiving the no objection certificate (NOC) from the government on 11Oct2021 and an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) on this date
IndiaEnugu Air launched its first commercial flights, operated by its strategic partner XEJet
Nigeria