On May 17, 1947, the Mooney M-18 Mite made its first flight, introducing a sleek single-seat aircraft aimed at postwar pilots ...

On May 16, 1930, the Blériot Bl-110 Joseph Le Brix first flew, later setting major long-distance aviation records in the ...

With new aircraft and a planned aviation plaza, the museum is creating an interactive space where visitors can explore the history of flight.

She was a groundbreaking aviator who learned to fly after hearing tall tales from a pilot who’d crash-landed on her grandfather’s golf course in Warren Township, New Jersey. Later, she was one of the ...

The sixties saw a number of aviation records, with A Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan making the first non-stop flight from England to Australia on June 21, 1961. Boeing rolled out its first Boeing 727 ...

From San Diego to Seattle to Port Townsend, a non-descript sheet metal building might be the oldest, most historic – and most well-traveled – airplane hangar in the Evergreen State. This breaking ...

SEATTLE — The site of the most aviation history in the Northwest may be right here in Seattle. Magnuson Park was once known as Sand Point Naval Air Station and has a long aviation history. In the ...

Huge losses ensued for the commercial airline sector and hundreds of staff were made redundant or furloughed during COVID-19 pandemic The long and illustrious history of the aviation industry has been ...

Some two decades after the first U.S. Army helicopter units arrived in Vietnam, Army Aviation became a branch on April 12, 1983. As the Army celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Aviation Branch this ...

Over the last century and a half, aviation has evolved from a concept into a field of technical engineering, taking advantage of the laws of physics, skill of pilots, and modern technologies. To ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. — The U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence welcomed more than 200 current and legacy Army aviation leaders to Fort Rucker to hear from senior leaders and foster discussion about ...