Browsing: New York Aviation History

June 28th marks the 81st anniversary of the first regular trans-Atlantic passenger service via Pan Am’s Boeing 314 ‘Dixie Clipper’.…

Both Pan American World Airways and it’s famous Terminal 3 at John F. Kennedy International Airport are not around any…

On June 6th scores of cities, towns and villages in France and in Holland celebrate their liberation, and the victory…

On September 18, 1932 pilot, James Banning took off from Dycer Airport, Los Angeles in an orange and black Alexander…

“I saw the alchemy of perspective reduce my world, and all my other life, to grains in a cup. I…

A familiar and sometimes iconic site at airports across the globe, the air traffic control tower, celebrated its 100th birthday…

You could say Viola Gentry was a rebellious teen. In 1910, when she was just 16 years old, she had…

On June 12, 2001, a JetBlue airliner touched down at JFK International and taxiied to its gate after a two-and-a-half-hour…

Only a few nautical miles from Idlewild Airport; Rockaway Airport debuted on July 16, 1939, and was originally called the…

“I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability, but the mental condition which it…