On this day in aviation history, 116 years ago (July 25, 1909), the first successful airplane flight across the English Channel took place. At the controls was Louis Charles Joseph Blériot, a ...

The Evelyn Way Kendall Early Aviation and Balloon Collection documents early aeronautical history from the 18th century to the 1960s. From the early 1920s to the 1960s, Evelyn Way Kendall amassed over ...

Pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Learn how she used aviation to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of a scrapbook covering the International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park, Long Island, New York in October 1910, the Aero ...

In early 1923 the city of Fairbanks invested in the future of the early aviation industry by developing what became Weeks Field, our first municipal airport. Its location began in ...