Browsing: New York Aviation History

When Boeing designed the 747, the world’s first wide-body, twin-aisle airliner powered by high bypass ratio turbofans, in the 1960s,…

Roosevelt Field and the Cradle of Aviation Museum present Roosevelt Field Aviators: Exhibit and NFT Collection on display at the…

As the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey continues a multibillion-dollar redevelopment and modernization of each of its…

Trailblazing pilot Willa Brown will be posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio on September…

In 2005, while recording her oral history, Lillian Yonally recalled the thrilling sensation of lifting up from a runway and…

Having planted its Connecticut roots in 1962 when Joseph M. Fugere founded Pilgrim Airlines for the purpose of linking Groton…

On December 5, another piece of Pan Am’s history was added to the airline’s permanent exhibit at the Cradle of…

After more than 64 years in business, the world’s most iconic airline, Pan American World Airways (also known around the…

If a person about to board an airplane in Omaha were asked where he was flying to and he responded,…

The story of commercial air travel, in a heavier-than-air, winged aircraft, began on January 1, 1914, when the world’s first…