Airline history from 1929, this page lists 45 airline related events from 1929.
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45 dates in airline history from 1929:
January 01, 1929
LOT was formed. View airlines from Poland.
January 2nd, 1929
LOT, formed yesterday, by taking over existing domestic lines Aero and Aerolot, start operations. View airlines from Poland.
January 17, 1929
Colonial Flying Service and Scully Walton Ambulance Company organize the United State’s first civilian air ambulance service. View airlines from USA.
January 30, 1929
Hawaiian Airlines was formed as Inter-Island Airways. View airlines from USA.
February 01, 1929
The Boeing Airplane and Transport Corp. changed its name to United Aircraft and Transportation Corp.. View airlines from USA.
February 6th, 1929
First flight carrying international airmail in Central America and USA. Lindbergh piloting the amphibious Sikorsky S-38 opened the Pan American Miami-Panama route. View airlines from USA.
March 05, 1929
LATAM Chile was founded by the Chilean Government as Linea Aeropostal Santiago-Arica. View airlines from Chile.
March 05, 1929
Alpar Bern was formed to operate routes out of the Swiss capital and also manage its airport, Flugplatz Bern-Belpmoos. View airlines from Switzerland.
March 09, 1929
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh inaugurates the first direct mail route to Mexico City. View airlines from USA.
March 13, 1929
CLASSA (Campanole de Lineas Subvencionades) (>Iberia) was formed. View airlines from Spain.
April 09, 1929
Air Union restarted to operate a nightly service from Paris to London (>Air France). View airlines from France.
April 14, 1929
Ed Link introduced a ground-based flight trainer. During World War II, half a million pilots received flight training in Link trainers.. View airlines from USA.
April 15th, 1929
Alaska-Washington Airways was formed by Joseph L Carmen Jr, (>>Seattle-Wenatchee-Yakima Airways). View airlines from USA.
April 16, 1929
Inland Flying Service restarted operations (>PSIoWA +>Portsmouth Aviation). View airlines from United Kingdom.
April 29, 1929
Stout Air Services was purchased by United Aircraft and Transport Corporation (UATC). View airlines from USA.
May 27, 1929
CLASSA, constituted on 13Mar1929, commenced operations (>Iberia). View airlines from Spain.
June 10th, 1929
Alpar Bern operated the company’s first air services: Basel – Biel – Bern (>AlparAG). View airlines from Switzerland.
June 14, 1929
Imperial Airways made the first 30-minute "tea" flight over London, costing £2. 2s, reduced in 1931 to £1 10s (>BA). View airlines from United Kingdom.
June 17, 1929
Delta Air Service made its first passenger flight (>Delta Airlines in 1945). View airlines from USA.
July 03, 1929
Aeropostal was founded as Cie Générale Aéropostale. View airlines from Venezuela.
July 07, 1929
Transcontinental Air Transport inaugurates 48-hour coast-to-coast passenger transportation service, with air travel by day and rail travel by night (>American Airlines). View airlines from USA.
July 08, 1929
Shanghai-Chengtu Air Mail Line, the first passenger/air mail service in China had inaugural flight (>>Air China). View airlines from China.
July 13, 1929
Wilson Airways was set up by Mrs Florence Kerr Wilson as Kenya’s first commercial airline. View airlines from Kenya.
July 24th, 1929
Union Airways was registered (>South African Airways). View airlines from South Africa.
July 29, 1929
A Ford Trimotor flown by Charles Lindbergh began the first coast-to-coast air passenger service through Transcontinental Air Transport (>TWA > American Airlines). View airlines from USA.
July 30, 1929
ETA (Empresa de Transporte Aéreo) operated its first flight. View airlines from Brazil.
August 02, 1929
LOT, started operations on 02Jan1929, operated its first international service to Vienna. View airlines from Poland.
August 21, 1929
Ford’s Tri-Motor aircraft, nicknamed “The Tin Goose had its.first flight with Pitcairn Aviation’s passenger division. View airlines from USA.
August 26, 1929
Union Airways began airmail operations with five de Havilland DH 60 Gipsy Moth bi-planes (>South African Airways). View airlines from South Africa.
August 26, 1929
The first flight of the largest trimotor transport aircraft built by Fokker, the F.IX, took to the air on its first flight. The prototype (PH-AGA) was handed over to KLM on 08May1930. View airlines from Netherlands.
August 26, 1929
Chinese Airways Federal was inaugurated. View airlines from China.
September 12, 1929
18-passenger Boeing Model 80A made its first flight. View airlines from USA.
September 13, 1929
Fokker F.32 first flight. A passenger aircraft built by the Fokker Aircraft Corporation of America in 1929 in their Teterboro, New Jersey factory. View airlines from USA.
October 06, 1929
Hawaiian Airlines, founded on 30Jan1929, began operations as Inter-Island Airways. View airlines from USA.
October 08, 1929
Cubana was founded as CNCAC (Compañía Nacional Cubana de Aviación Curtiss). View airlines from Cuba.
October 12, 1929
Panagra, founded on 13Sep1928, commenced operations (>>Braniff). View airlines from USA.
October 21, 1929
Chinese Airways Federal Inc., inaugurated on 26Aug1929, began scheduled services. View airlines from China.
October 22, 1929
NYRBA do Brasil began operations (renamed to Panair do Brasil on 21Nov1930). View airlines from Brazil.
November 1st, 1929
Aeroposta Argentina, formed in Buenos Aires on 05Sep1927, operated its inaugural flight. View airlines from Argentina.
November 16th, 1929
Ruy Vacani and the Braga Brothers founded ETA (Empresa de Transporte Aéreo) on 10Aug1928. Ceased operations. View airlines from Brazil.
November 25, 1929
CLASSA, formally constituted as a company on 13Mar1929, commenced operations (>Iberia). View airlines from Spain.
December 20, 1929
ISAS (Indian State Air Service) start operations. View airlines from India.
December 23, 1929
Imperial Airways, the maiden service from London to Delhi took place & took nearly seven days to complete the journey (>BA). View airlines from United Kingdom.
December 30, 1929
Imperial Airways' maiden service from London to Delhi in a DH66 Hercules arrived. It had left London Croydon Airport on 23Dec1929. View airlines from United Kingdom.
November 11, 1929
Inter-Island Airways (>Hawaiian Airlines) began Hawaii's first interisland scheduled service, with two, eight-passenger Sikorsky S-38 amphibian aircraft. View airlines from USA.